My question involves restraining orders in the State of: California.
I'm not sure if I got in the right forum, but here is the situation. I'm happy to re-ask it in another forum if advised to do so).
My 17-yr old son adores is 14 year old girlfriend and treats her very well and responsibly. There are NO sexual relations between the two and no intention to engage in such activity. He is going to college this fall while she become a sophomore in their current academy.
Their dating life is mostly relegated to hanging out after school on school campus, one date to Long Beach for a day with her mother present and one date with me present. My son felt it important from the beginning to get to know each other's parents where possible and assure her family (which is complicated) that his intentions are pure. She lives with her mother and grandmother, her mother has full custody and her dad has been incarcerated for drug dealing and is now out on, I THINK, parole. His girlfriend is extremely responsible and respectful and I'm impressed with her level of maturity, especially for her age.
The problem that my son (and I) would like feedback on. Her father pays for her cell phone. She has not wanted to speak to him for a while because he is controlling and emotionally abusive. He has reserved physical abuse for only the adult women in his life. He took her phone from her because she wouldn't speak to him, and texted my son, using a lot of innuendo, defaming her character and that of her mother and suggesting my son put his relationship with his girlfriend "on ice." This was a day or two ago. Last night while my son was on date with his girlfriend (with me present), her father texted him asking if he had done as he suggested in previous text. At dinner after the concert we went to, they both shared this with me.
My son wants to do the right thing but not sure what that is in this case. He wants to be respectful. What are the legal issues, if any, that he needs to consider? What legal rights does her father have with regards to her given he has ONLY visitation rights at this point.

