Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Mississippi

Harrassment

I have been wrongly charged with harrassing phone calls. The plaintiff is the father of my child's wife. Before the court ordered no visitation between father and child, there was phone contact between them. I have come now to relize why they would not answer the phone the 1st time we would call and why I received a call about 1:00 a.m. a couple of months ago stating that my child's grandmother (the father's mother) was in the hospital and may not live....which led me to call the father's house in the middle of the night repeatedly because his wife would not give me any information or let me talk to the father...she kept hanging up....so conviently for her the phone records she is suppose to have will show that I had called repeatedly. I feel like I have been set up. There has been no contact whatsoever in over a month since the court order that it is not in the child's best interest. I have never called to harrass anyone...have never been in any trouble or had any trouble until now. I think his wife is mad because the court did order the father to pay child support. The only calls ever made to their home has been to contact the father directly about our child. What can I do?


Asked on 5/29/03, 2:34 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Regina Mullen Legal Data Services, PLC

Re: Harrassment

Get your argument together in a very CLEAR way, so that you can get the point across without sounding like you're whining. I don't see that you had a court order preventing YOU from making contact, and under the circumstances you describe, the only thing that doesn't make sense is why you would keep calling on that ONE occassion if someone kept hanging up on you. Get a lawyer for a few hundred bucks to make the argument on your behalf: she will take your testimony in a structured way, so the judge can understand the issues and get to the bottom of the controversy quickly.

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Answered on 5/29/03, 9:49 pm


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