The point I am trying to make is that they took the phone away from my grandson over 1 year ago this week and the still HAVE it.
I understand your point....that my grandson have NO rights of ownership while at his Dad's house. You've made it clear that the Dad has the right to forbid the child to use the phone in their home....HOWEVER, are you saying the Dad has the right to confiscate an active cell phone from the child with no obligation to return it to the rightful owner???? The lesson this Dad taught my grandchild is
for him not to take anything he treasures over to his Dad's because he is concerned his Dad will take it away from him.

Your advice is based on law which protects the parents and step-parent's action toward their children and step-child....
I also understand that. It seems their aren't laws to protect children from their parent's or step-parent's emotional abuse of the child when they take something that was given to them to use without any consideration of what that does to the child's feelings.

The law is black and white with no gray areas. I understand that! I get your point! But I do care about how anyone can take someone else's phone and keep it for over a year while that other person is undercontract to pay that bill. Not giving it back when they returned the grandchild to me IS THE PROBLEM i am having! I want to ACCOMPLISH the court helping me get my phone back.
The phone they had no right to take from me even though it was in the possession of my grandson when they took it.

Your opinion of me becoming far, far too involved in my daugther's legal situation offends me. I'm only involved when she wants me to be involved. In this particular situation, she and I are both actively involved together. Since the phone belongs to me and I am it's owner I am definitely my grandson's champion in this situation. The Dad was arrested for domestic violence, broke into the home,
brought his girlfriend to his and my daughter's divorce hearing...introduced her as his girlfriend to my grandson while still married to my daughter.

HOWEVER: JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, THE MAGISTRATE AT THE BENCH TRAIL FOUND IN MY FAVOR. I WAS ABLE TO GET MY PHONE BACK AND WITH SOME FINANCIAL RETRIBUTION. I WAS SURPRISED BECAUSE EVERYTHING ON THIS BLOG WAS AGAINST MY BEING ABLE TO WIN THIS.