<prompt> Human: Hello - Initially, I want to apologize for the length of this post- First, I am from Seattle, where I attend a university as a sophomorejunior was planning on pre medbioeng. I found out this February that I was pregnant, with my boyfriend of the past 2.5 years currently 37 weeks. The pregnancy was unplanned, but at this point, I cannot see myself not raising this little girl. At the beginning of my pregnancy, the relationship with my ex-turned extremely physically abusive as he tried to pressure me into getting an abortion. I have since cut ties with him. My ex he lives out of state and comes from an extremely wealthy family. He threatened me he will be pulling whatever strings he can with lawyers, money, etc either to not have to pay a dime in child support, or get full custody of our child. If anyone has any legal suggestions, or where to even start with this please let me know.Meanwhile, my mother has been suffering from terminal cancer for the past 2 years. She was ecstatic after I told her I was pregnant. Since I am her only child, this will be the only chance she has to meet her grandchild. We both looked at this opportunity as a very big blessing. Her cancer began as cervical but has now metastasized all over her lower abdomen a rare jelly like adenocarcinoma. Her chemo just stopped working, tumors are growing, and her health is beginning to deteriorate faster than I couldve possibly imagined. She barely eats, gets out of bed, lifting her arms is hard, mentally foggy from all of the medication. It is extremely hard to watch. Background on my family- my father who lives in California, is married to my step fathers ex-wife. My parents do not speak and the divorce when I was 5 was very messy. For my entire life, I have been very close with my dad. Since my moms diagnosis, my father has cut off all communication with me, completely abandoning me. Everything in my moms name will go to my step dad when she passes. He controls the moneywhich is not much, and everything to do with her will. He is not a trustworthy person, has always held some strange resentment towards me from my parents divorce, and I suspect he will dump me on the street as soon as my mother passes. My mom doesnt want to spend the last days of her life in conflict with her husband and refuses to put anything in writing to which Im entitled to. I just finished summer quarter with a 4.0. Whew. I am working as a medical scribe at a local ER, trying to save as much money as possible before I am due on September 30th. I am currently on TANF, but that only provides me with about 300 month. I do not have a car, only have about 3500 in my bank account and will be left with nothing when my mom passes. I am terrified and heartbroken, among many other things and do not know what steps to take to free myself from this situation. I am not one to ask for help, but any advice, money managing strategies, referrals, ideas would be very much appreciated. I have been reluctant to bring a child into this mess and have considered adoption but I am extremely resilientmotivated and believe theres a way out of all of this. I do not have any other immediate family, my friends are all young college students and I dont know where else to turn for advice.  <response>: You are in a tough spot, but you sound smart and resilient. Contact your dad. He might have stopped communicating for now because he doesnt want to hear about your mother getting sicker. Some people just sort of prefer to bury their heads in the sand. If you were close pre-diagnosis, give him a call and see if hell provide you and his grandchild a place to live while you get your feet under you. It doesnt sound like his issue is with you, but maybe just that he doesnt want to hear about your mother going downhill.Save any texts or email communication with your ex. Communicate by email and text only so you have written copies of anything he says. If you wait a few months and establish that you are the only one doing any parenting, hes really not likely to have much ability to get your child from you. And if he tries, thats why youll want everything documented. Like another person said, if he is threatening to you or your child, take out a restraining order. Custody is most likely to be decided by whatever has been the status quo. If youve been parenting 100 of the time and he has 0 of the time, its unlikely hell suddenly be granted any significant parenting time. And child support is just done based on a state calculator. Youll plug in your income, your expenses, etc. into a formula that takes into account his income and expenses, plus what proportion of time each individual takes care of the child, and that formula determines child support. It really is for your child, to cover medical expenses, food clothes, extra utilities used, larger apartment needed to be rented, daycare, etc. 