Needing help

Texas

I have sole custody of my daughter, now 10, she went to visit with her dad in Louisiana for the summer was supposed to be back by Aug 10. It seemed the entire time her dad was trying to make up an excuse to keep her.

I left him for putting a hole in a door above my head. He hasn’t been in her life and we have been separated since 2020 and divorced in 2024. He’s always promised things to only cancel. For 6+ yrs.

He has 2 other kids with his girlfriend who he has had charges dropped of violence and endangering a child along with other stuck charges/convictions to alcohol related. I have been thru a CPS case of finding meth in my system but in all honestly I was sleeping with a guy who I found out about doing it completely blocked him out of my life and he backlashed to calling CPS saying it was around my kids. CPS case was closed.

Forward to now, a week before she was to come back home she disclosed to her dad and his girlfriend that my boyfriend I have a 1 yr old son with exposed him self to her. She has also told us all that she never told me. His girlfriend turn it in to CPS, I filed a sheriffs report and moved within a week of us finding out all at the same time.

Thru the CPS case I have obviously been found I had no knowledge of any of what she disclosed nor any part. Case dismissed. I agreed for her to stay put until I became settled in the new move but nothing more. He enrolled her into school in Louisiana and I half agreed. Expecting her to be coming back within months.

He’s now not wanting to coparent anymore like usual he always blamed me when his life became too unbearable. I’m the reason I don’t have my kids, I’ve put them in danger over and over. He’s called me nasty things over the yrs. Belittling me over and over. All the narcissistic things. She’s never coming back. Her public school assessments she apparently failed. She’s going into 4th grade but they kept her in the 4th. I have homeschooled the past yr. The school apparently told him to not let me have her back, she’s way behind. But in all honesty if she was way behind they wouldn’t have kept her in the 4th grade!

I’ve been trying for over a week to get ahold of a lawyer even legal aid to no avail of a return call. I need to go get my child as my legal custody agreement has stating regardless of what is going on with the CPS case I’m no longer “involved” in. He won’t give me his new address they just moved to within the last week. I don’t know the school she is in. I don’t know where to turn!

Editing to add, she went to her dad’s with an ear infection along with dehydration from the progression too fast of the infection and sun celebrating her birthday in the summer heat. The day she left I took her to the hospital because I thought she was super dehydrated but come to find out also infection. She gave me no assurance of any pain. Just not eating/drinking and clearly not feeling well. He’s claiming I’ve never fed her appropriately this entire time of her life, not giving her everything she’s wanted in meals/snacks. She didn’t eat the first part of being with him, etc. without reminding him again and again of the before fact. I’ve had numerous calls/pictures/messages from her. different environments her allergies were showing severely, runny nose and swollen face. I constantly had to call basically begging him to give her something including ibuprofen and Tylenol. He told me she’s just a hypochondriac! No one believes her. When clearly I can see it hundreds of miles away!