My childs father and I have joint custody with him having physical custoday. My childs father and step mother will ground my child, when he is grounded they will not allow him to call me or for me to talk to him when I call. My sons step mother would not allow my son to list me as his mother with the school. My sons father told my son I was a bad parent, however I have never done anything wrong or illegal. I am disabled but still able to communicate, nurture and love my son. Do to limited income from disability I just cant afford an attorney. Am I able to file contempt for parental alienation on my own?

Have you browsed through the information in LawInfo's Free Legal Resource Center to learn more about your issue yet? See: http://www.lawinfo.com/consumer.html and http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/index.html. You can certainly try to speak to a lawyer to determine what legal options may be available. In the meantime, you may be able to learn more on your own. Search the "Free Legal Resources" tab, or browse the Consumer Resources. Good luck.

What EXACTLY does your visitation order say? THAT is what dad will be held to regarding contempt. If the order doesn't specifically address phone contact, then it's not an issue of contempt. You can always attempt to get any current order modified to address contact by methods like phone, skype, internet chat/video, etc.. If the current order DOES does address phone contact, and dad isn't abiding by the order, then you have grounds to ask the court to find him in contempt of the order.

If you have joint legal custody, you should have no problem contacting the school directly to list yourself.

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