I was with my sons father for 3 ½ years. We separated due to his drug addition to meth. He spent a year in jail, and was released back in May. He is $10,000.00 behind in child support, He wont pay it, I am trying to go back to court to enforce child support, even though he is not working. He is dodging the civil process server to serve him with court papers so that we can go back to court finally! He knows as long as they cant locate him then there is nothing I can do. He has 5 or 6 drug felonies on his record, from what I hear from his father he is back on meth. I am afraid to allow my little boy who is 2 to spend his overnight stays with him. Even though my ex never calls to schedule those overnight stays. He has threatened me before to run off with our son and there would be nothing I could do about it until we went to court. I have called the police, and they don’t see it serious enough to even make a report over it. I felt sorry for him in the beginning and even let him borrow my spare car, so that he could look for a job and when he returned the car, (after many threats to report it stolen, because he kept it for 3 days) My mother and I found syringes in the car. I don’t know what to do. I do know that he is a negative influence on my son. I know that is his father, but at the same time I want what is best for my child. I work a full time job; on top of that I am a full time college student, and raising this baby alone. I have been doing this by myself since day one, and if I ever called them to ask them to buy diapers, etc they tell me to get lost. Can I request to have his rights as a father terminated? I mean what’s the point in my ex having rights to his son that he never sees or helps care for. Basically what rights do I have as a parent who is trying to protect her baby from harms way. My exs mother was letting him smoke dope when he was only 13! There are no positive influences in that whole family. I’m lost and need some advice. Im trying to save up money for a lawyer, and I live in Texas and do not qualify for free legal aid.