my ex husband won’t give me my child when it is my legal weekend

If your husband is engaging in a pattern of violating your order of visitation, you need to go back to court and file a violation of your visitation petition usually called a contempt of court. However, you have to make sure that you have sufficient proof to show that attempts were made to pick up the child and he refused. You have to go there and ask for the child and be rebuffed. If you merely call him and he says no, that may not be enough. Bring a witness with you when going to pick up the child. Also, if your state allows one sided phone taping, get him on tape denying you visitation. You can also go to the nearest precinct to file a report that he denied visitation. Once you have the sufficient proof and he has no reason, he may be found in contempt which could be a fine, incarceration or a change in custody.

This is a very upsetting thing to hear!  I cannot tell you how many clients we represent that have this problem.  You ned to take a "no nonsense" approach to this so that you get the respect of your husband.  Here is what you want to do:  Call your lawyer immediately and have him/her file a motion for contempt on tuesday morning seeking attorney's fees for you having to ask the court to remind your ex of the court order.  the court may also fine him for violating the order to court place him in jail depending on how many times he has done this.  You need to make sure your lawyer is on top of this and sticks it to him each time he violates a court order.  he should not be drpriving you of your child's time with you-  that is priceless!