Any Criminal Attorneys?

i was wondering if anyone was an attorney and would be willing to give me their advice/ opinion on a situation. i know that laws vary by state, but any help would be appreciated. i’ll try to keep this as brief as possible, but i want to be sure to include any information that may be valid.

my husband is in the middle of a nasty child custody battle with his daughters mother. he just found out the child was his this past august when she was almost 14 months old. in february, the judge ordered supervised visits to help his daughter adjust to being at our house, but to still have a familiar face present. his daughters maternal grandmother volunteered to supervise visits. we were hesitant about her supervising, because she tend to be the center and instigator of all the custody related drama. but, since he wanted to see his daughter, we agreed and figured we’d see how it worked out.

on march 24th, they arrived at 1pm for the scheduled visit, which was for 1-3pm. the grandmother and my husband got into somewhat of a verbal altercation. she began yelling and cussing to the point where i had to send my other children upstairs to avoid them seeing such foolishness. the grandmother then calls her daughter (baby girls mother) to come over, for what, i’m not sure. but before i knew it, she had walked right into my house without knocking or anything, and begins fussing at my husband and telling him she’s taking her daughter and the visit was over, it was about 2pm. the week prior to this, my husband had told her that she wasn’t welcome in our house because of the nasty texts and how badly she was treating him.

the police ended up being called by my husband to try to get them to enforce the visitation time that was in the custody agreement. (in their agreement it states that law enforcement may get involved to ensure the agreement is being followed) the police told my husband they could trespass his daughters mother from our property and he could go to the magistrate and file trespassing charges, which he did that same afternoon.

she did not get served the summons for trespassing until tuesday 4-17, and she was also arrested. so now this girl has 6, yes, 6, pending criminal charges to her name.

on friday 4-20, an officer shows up to our home and tells my husband that the grandmother pressed charges on him for assault on a female, claiming that he put his finger in her face, pushed her down and would not let her leave. i will admit, during the argument, he did point his finger at her, but he was always at least 2 feet from her and definitely did not touch her, or keep her from leaving our house.

as a matter of fact, we have video recordings that i took during the arguments where she is going in and out of our house to smoke a cigarette, where she is yelling and cussing. i have a recorded phone call with her where she says “he was red in the face and pointed his finger at me.” she did not mention ANYTHING about assault. nor did she mention it to the police when they came to our residence on 3-24. my husband got a copy of the call transcript, and it states they responded to a verbal altercation, and an individual was trespassed from the property.

my husband is worried sick. we know he’s innocent, and just based on the dates, i feel it’s obvious that it’s retaliation for her daughter receiving charges for trespassing since she didn’t file the assault charges until the day after her daughter was served, almost 3 weeks after this happened. court is on 4-24. he wants to get an attorney, but also doesn’t want this to be drug out and continued because he doesn’t want it to have an affect on his custody case.

i know this is a lot to read. anyone have any advice or comments that may be helpful?