Here is my situation, I live in New York with my 4 yr old son which I alone take care of. I was in a relationship with his father but we broke up (we were never married and he is not listed on the birth certificate). I used to let my son visit with his fathers side of the family because he wanted him to know them, but for the last couple of months I stopped all visitations and phone calls, reason being that his family are a very bad influence on my son. My sons grandmother and his aunt are both chain smokers. I have asked them repeatedly not to smoke while my son is visiting yet they continued to do so to the point where my son would come home with a rash and smelling like an ashtray. Apart from that they interrogate my son by asking him questions about my private life, (who I’m dating and so forth). He did not tell me, his grandmother herself called my cell yelling at me as to why I’m dating some guy and that I should not be with another man while her son is in prison.(we are not together anymore, and it’s none of her business who I date, and the fact that she asked my son those questions made me very angry) My ex is in jail for arm robbery and his father just got out on parole and his mother did time for robbery and identity theft as well. Her children had to be placed in foster homes while she was doing time now she wants to come into my life and tell me how to raise my son. I want to know if she has any legal right to my son? I already went to family court to file for sole custody of my little boy, I don’t want his father and his parents mistakes to also become my sons, so I am trying to distant my son as far away from them as I can; and provide him with a safer and more stable home. I want to give him a fair shot at life in order for him to become a strong, hardworking, and responsible man.