<human>: Obviously a throwaway I don't want to hurt my legal case...

This all started a few months ago when my (now)ex-Girlfriend (we were never married) cheated on me and then decided to end our relationship.  All I wanted early on in the separation was some sort of structured visitation schedule. when I asked her for this she told me that a schedule would "fuck the kid up worse" 

She has historically used the ability to visit and see her kids as a weapon against her family and now is doing the same to me.

I have consulted a lawyer and I do have a hearing next week to gain some type of custody. She has jerked me around and dangled the kid over my head from the beginning of our split and I have been paying support (not ordered by the court to do so but have been in anticipation of the case)

Recently protective services was called by my ex's mother because my ex left a golf ball sized bruise on her other child's shoulder (not my biological kid I had been raising him though) CPS did absolutely nothing in the way of protecting the kids from this potentially dangerous person and swept the case under the rug and awarded her the children back. Since then she will not let me see my daughter and has continued the same shenanigans of not letting me see her and giving me no idea of when I will see her. She is and always has been very controlling and at this point withholding visitation is being done for spite because I was partially custodial for our daughter when she had the children removed from her care by CPS

In my state if you weren't married, even if you signed the birth certificate, it can be a nightmare for dads to have any rights. I have an attorney who assures me that some sort of structure can be attained through litigation.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: Broke the first rule about craziness and dicks, paying the price now, all I want is my kid.