Can I legally ban my (future ex) in laws from seeing my children? PLEAS HELP

Eliza

Dh and I are heading towards divorce. Currently there's no plan to file paperwork but it will happen soon. My husband has proven himself to be completely unreliable when it comes to showing up for visitation or barring any responsibilities in regards to doctors appointments , picking them up from school xcetera. Currently the visitation we have set up is he gets the kids every Wednesday night and every other weekend. It doesn't seem like much but he can barely show up for that. So last night my husband was due to pick up my oldest son who is 3 years old from daycare. At approximately 5:15 p.m. as I had not heard anything I text my youngest son's home daycare girl to see if my son had been picked up. I got no response. I've been prompted myself to call my eldest son's daycare to see if he had been picked up. He had not. It was approximately 5:30 and my heart broke that my kids were waiting for so long.

About 2 minutes after as I Was preparing to go pick up my children my father-in-law calls me. He asks me if I have my son and when I tell him no he proceeds to call me a miserable cunt and then hangs up. I immediately called back and get my mother-in-law on the phone to which she and I then argued. And she says "I need to go pick up your son before they send him to DCF because YOU didn't pick them up." She then proceeds to hang up on me as well. I called her back to see if she had my youngest because I still have yet to hear from the home daycare girl. My mother in law confirms that she has my youngest. So all the arguing and cussing they were doing was right in front of him. And I only think God that my oldest wasn't there. Come to find out that when no one showed up to pick up my youngest the home daycare girl proceeded to call my in-laws and allowed them to pick him up instead of notifying me. I am currently looking for a new daycare provider.

With all that being said this was the tip of the iceberg. Ever since my dh and I have separated my mother-in-law went full force bashing me and spreading rumors all over her Facebook and all over my husband's Facebook we have had many arguments via text and now there was last night's phone calls.

So my question is can I file papers with the court Banning them from seeing my children due to alienation? Do I have any legal rights to prevent them from going over there. I don't let it happen when it is on my time but I know that one it is my husband's time he is over there very frequently. And I know that they speak this way in front of my kids.

What do I do? Do I have any legal rights to protect my kids from their negativity and alienation?

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