Thank you for the informatin and help. You actually answered my next question. which is:
My mother is coming to visit from California for a week. She has not yet been able to see the child and he is almost 1 year old now. I was wondering if, WHEN THE CHILDS MOTHER LETS ME TAKE HIM FOR EVEN A FEW MINUTES, IS THERE ANYWAY THAT I CAN GET IN TROUBLE FOR TELLING HER THAT I AM NOT GOING TO RETURN HIM UNTIL AFTER MY MOTHER LEAVES TO GO HOME?...
I really wish I did not have to take such an action however, I deserve to spend time with my child and she is absolutely refusing to let me.
There is currently no custody/visitation etc. order.
So I guess,... If I did take the action and keep the child and tell his mother that I would return him AFTER my mother went back home to california, will I get in trouble?...
also,... If I did take this action and she showed up at my house with the police in an attempt to get the child back,... Do I have a reasonable defence against the police to keep the child at my house and not have to give him back to his mother?
please answer these questions as swiftly as possible if you are certain of this situation, my mother will only be at my home from 09/11/2008 through 09/20/2008.
thank you in advance.