Child Custody

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My name is Samantha and my fiance, Robert and I have have been going through a court for him to see his 3 year old daughter, Jasmine. Jasmine's mother, Nicole, and Robert were not married and only lived together for 9 months. They split when Nicole was 3 months pregnant. She has fought the entire time so Robert would not be able to see his daughter. At the last court hearing on July 27, 2006 Nicole and Robert agreed to a Parenting Order and Nicole agreed to have Robert named as a guardian to Jasmine. The order was that Nicole was to meet half way to drop Jasmine off to us as she lives 3 hours away. We would be allowed to have Jasmine with us from 12 noon on the Friday of Robert's days off to the following Sunday at 4pm. Robert is off for 6 days and is on call for 15. after the court hearing Nicole tried to change it and then 4 days later told us she would not comply with it at all. Her mother has been meeting us and has now said that she will not be dropping Jasmine off in the winter. If we wish to see her we have to drive 3 hours and stay in a hotel. We have asked if it was possible to have Jasmine for an extra day and she has said that she is now going back to court and going to fight that we not have Jasmine at all. She has recently had a child by her new husband and now Jasmine is staying with her grandmother because Nicole can not handle her and the new baby. Nicole has a criminal record involving setting an ex-boyfriend on fire before her and Robert were together and last summer she set her apartment on fire and lead the police on a 2 hour man hunt. She has been diagnosed with multiple personalities and is supposed to take medication but refuses. We feel that Jasmine is in danger because there is not telling when Nicole will have another fit. We have just recently found out that Nicole and her husband forgot Jasmine in their van when visiting with friends and then fought over who was going to go and get her. This is the second time we have heard of her leaving Jasmine alone. 2 years ago she locked Jasmine in her room and went to work and the landlord found her when he went to fix something. This is causing a great deal of hurt and stress as my 4 year old son and Jasmine get along well but do not see each other often enough. Jasmine enjoys being here with us and we have noticed that when you ask her about her mother and her new little brother she gets a scared look on her face and will not look at you or speak to you. I have emails where Nicole has stated that she is poisoning Jasmine's mind against us and we feel that if she speaks about us she gets in trouble. My fiance is not even allowed to speack to her on the phone when she is with her mother. Is there anything we can do to get custody of Jasmine? Or is more time all we can ask for? Do we have to get a lawyer to go for custody or can we do it ourselves? We do not want to cut her mother out of her life but we feel that she would be better off here. Please let me know what we can do as we are very concerned.