Hope someone can help. Me and my ex not married but he's on birth certificate. 2 years ago I had to call police on my ex's father as he came running to hit me. They had alot of cohesive control over me. So for nearly 1 and a half year my ex didnt see the child. Last year we tried to fix thing for our son. But only 2 months and everything went back to how things were before. He never used to come home, never saw the child. Only met him for 10sec in like 10 days. 2 weeks ago I wanted to end things, when I told him he said I want to take the child every week 3 days.. I said no as he never saw the child anyway and he's turning 3 soon. I said you will have to go court. The word court triggered him and he started to hit me and strangled me. I called police and they took h away. Due to alot of threats from his family I had to withdraw the case. After 2 weeks his solicitor has emailed me to say he wants child arrangement.
My question is he never saw the child he's physically and mentally abused me and, also my child is in a process of a diagnosis. He has some short of learning difficulty that's not been diagnosed yet.. can he go to court and take my child away from me. I don't want him to take him away from me over night as my son has alot of needs and he has no clue. Please could someone help.
Also he never paid toward the child, not for clothes food. Only recently he started to pay for nursery and rent after me begging him for money for days.
Thank you