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Well the problem is that she does not want me to have custody of him because I got married and had another child. She will hardly let him stay for a week with me. I have been trying to at least get him for the summer but she won't let that happen because she knows he won't want to come back and I won't make him. I have met with a lawyer once before and she informed me that she could file an injuction (?) to get a judge to force her into limiting how much time a day that he can stay with her mother and that he could not spend the night there. Yes, that would help me feel better about his safety as far as she goes but then that opens up a whole new can of worms about where will he be and how can I get in touch with him.

Okay I am new to the site so please forgive me if I am not posting correctly. I have questions and I need to know where to go for answers and help. Okay, my son is nine years old. His mother and I have joint custody with her being the custodial parent. Well the situation is this. I moved to Fort Worth about five years ago. My son is in Tyler. Now, I have consistently paid my child support, which I filed on myself, from the time he was about two years old. But my son does not live with his mother. He lives with his grandmother. This was supposed to be a temporary arrangement in order for him to attend a school in the district in which her mother lives while she tried to get her financial situation under control. Well needless to say she has moved into a house in the district, one block down the street from her mother and she still has not allowed him to come and live with her. Okay, that may not seem major except for the fact that she still gets the child support payments and is not supporting him. But okay I have dealt with that part. The major problem is that her mother suffers from cancer and it's effects. So she is too tired and weak to either watch him or discipline him because of her failing health. In such, the grandmother has asked me to come and take him to live with me, as well as he has constantly voiced the need to move in with me because he does not feel like he has the attention or support he needs in the situation. His grades are not what they have been this year and in fact have been on a decline since last year and he has been to see a behavioral counselor because of his acting out. Now every time I ask him why he acts out, he tells me that his mother keeps saying that if he keeps being bad that she is going to send him to stay with me. So this is his attempt to move. It is making me nervous because he is getting to the age where he is getting too hard for her sick mother to control. He is also talking a lot about trying to just get away from his mother. I am not sure what the problem is but something makes him not want to stay with her but there is a problem. What can I do to try to get custody or at least make her take him from her sick mother. I geniunely fear for his safety because his grandmother sleeps most of the day or just lays on the couch and he has no supervision. What can I do?