If you are a non-custodial parent whom is unfairly being pushed out of your child’s life, you are more than likely frustrated with the lack of help from local police and court systems. Many local police departments do not want to get involved in custody disputes, often leaving a non-custodial parent with no power to enforce his or her visitation rights.

While it can be hard to maintain contact with your child, if the custodial parent is trying to alienate the non-custodial parent from the child, there are things that can be done, to help maintain the relationship between the child and the non-custodial parent. In this article we are going to discuss using cell phones to stay in touch with your child.

Many custodial parents complain about the cost of phone bills for the parent to have contact with the non-custodial parent. As well as the child tying up the phone lines. For the custodial parent, the money and the tied up lines become complaints,and are used as a reason to block the child from talking to the non-custodial parent on the phone. If the non-custodial parent lives a great distance from the child, cutting phone contact can severely damage the relationship that is shared between the non-custodial parent and the child.

By taking advantage of one of today’s many different cell phone deal offeres, you can get a phone for you, as well as a phone for your child, on a plan where you can call each other for free. That way you and your child have a direct link to one and other, that does not cost, or involve the custodial parent in any way. They even have programmable cell phones for younger children, that can only dial the numbers that you program into them, this works great if you have a younger child, or one whom you can’t quite trust all the way yet with a cell phone.

By getting a cell phone for you and your child you will always be able to get a hold of him or her, and not have to go through the custodial parent to do so. By contacting the child directly, you are bypassing the custodial parent, as well as avoiding an argument with him or her. Be sure that you do respect the rules of the custodial parent’s home when it comes to phone rules though. If they have a “no calls after nine” rule, then be sure to respect it. If the child is breaking house rules to use his or her cell phone, it will give the custodial parent a reason to take the phone away from the child, and break the link that you had with your child. By respecting the rules of the custodial parent’s home, you will have a greater chance of them accepting the cell phone, and allowing the child to keep it, thus allowing you to stay connected to your child.