I HAVE FULL CUSTODY-THE FATHER WANTS VISITATION

I have a 5 yr old daughter. In 1994 her father babysat her-then would not give her back. Then he and my parents put their money together and payed a lawyer. They went to court without telling me and received temporary custody on the basis that I verbally abused my daughter because I yelled at my step-mother while holding my daughter, when my daughter was a baby,and that was considered verbal abuse to my daughter. My step-mother and I have fought with each other since we met when I was 6. After 7 months of court and cruel games which included me not being able to see my daughter from 5 months old to 1 yr old, my daughters father did not show up in court and he stopped paying his lawyer. Shortly before the last court date he simply dropped my daughter off,with a fever and bronchitis, where i lived and did not call or come by. After this I received emergency custody of my daughter. For the next 4 years I tried to get my daughters father to either watch her while I worked or give me money. He did not do either one except when it was convienent for him. i remember taking 3 buses to college with my daughter waiting at the bus stop at 5:30 in the morning in the middle of the winter then going to 1 and sometimes 2 jobs taking more buses. This would mean hours in the hospital in the middle of the night because this weather would give my daughter frequent bronchitis. Her father was well aware of this-his excuse: he had to go out of town or he had to work or I had to get my **** together. Now I have a steady job and a steady babysitter. My dauthters father has now hired a lawyer to get visitation because I wont let him see her because he comes by to see her once a month and cant give me any money or he will say how can he see her if he is working out of town. I dont want these people in my daughters life. I feel that they just want to play a power game because they were not there when my daughter needed them when she was ill and when I made minimum wage and I could only afford $20.00 a week for food at Aldi. Can you give me advice about what I should do? I dont make enough money to afford a lawyer but I know that I need a lawyer. Can you help me find one?

Thankyou: Becky