Legal fees for Grady.

I have found myself, yet again, backed up against a corner. My son’s father is taking me to court for the fifth time in 5 years. I’ll give you a little bit of a backstory so you’ll understand the situation. When I found out I was pregnant, Austin told me to have an abortion. Then, two weeks before I had Grady, he decided that he wanted to be part of his baby’s life. I said “OK, that’s awesome” because I want Grady to have a relationship with his father (my oldest child has absolutely nothing to do with his father at his father’s choice.) The day I went in to have my C-section to have my Grady. I met Austin‘s entire family for the first time. I allowed them to be in the room before I had Grady and after. I let the strangers hold my brand new baby because I was excited they were going to be a part of his life. His father and I tried dating after Grady was born because we thought it was best for him to have a mommy and a daddy in the same home that love him more than anything else on earth. Well, that ended quickly due to the fact that I was driving from Alpine Texas to San Antonio 2 to 3 times a week so they could see Grady and sending them videos and pictures every day. They never offered to pay for my gas and they never offered to pay for a hotel. After six months of this, I got I got aggravated and I broke things off with Grady’s father, Austin. After that we didn’t hear from Austin for almost a year.When we finally heard for him, it was a petition to go to court to have Grady‘s last name changed…TO GELSON! When I met Austin and when I became pregnant with Grady, Austin‘s last name was Samford. He had it changed right before Grady was born. When the judge asked Austin why he wanted his name changed. Austin’s only reply was to argue with the judge about the exact number of reasons that he was being asked to provide. Finally, he said that he wanted Grady’s name changed so that he and his family would feel like he’s actually a part of their family and so they would love him more. Little did I know, this was the start of a very ugly battle that has now gone on for five years. Austin and his grandmother were almost kicked out of the court room for yelling and cussing at the judge.Austin ended up getting custody for the first, third and fifth weekend of every month. Austin never came to see Grady while we lived in Alpine e. When we moved back to Kerrville, I was hoping Austin would finally have a relationship with Grady, but Austin canceled most weekends and if he did bother to show up, it was either for a Saturday or Sunday and he canceled the other day. All this was because he was too busy going out drinking and partying or hanging out with his girlfriend. Once they became serious and Jacqueline moved in, Austin started seeing Grady on a regular basis. However this has been going on for about three years and Austin still has not pay child support. At that time, I believe he was $12,000 behind in child support.During this whole time, the flights were non-stop and the harassment was non-stop. He constantly contacted my friends and family trying to ask what I was doing and where I was going. If anyone liked my pictures on Facebook, he contacted them and asked if we were having adult relations (but not worded that nicely.) If he knew my address, he would stalk me and drive by my house non-stop.Austin comes from a long line of money and his grandfather is an attorney. Austin uses this to his advantage every chance he can. He also has a go fund me page and has had multiple go fund me pages throughout Grady’s five years. He’s had multiple attorneys and makes sure that we see a different judge every time we go back to court. Every judge tells him that he needs to grow up, that he’s fed up with what he’s doing and that he needs to start paying child support. Also the judges tell,