Legal Question in Family Law in Minnesota

My ex girlfriend and I had a daughter in 2008. We broke up shortly after but continued to see each other off and on and had no problems exchanging our daughter. She met someone in july of 2011 got pregnant then married before the baby was born. She had 3 children with all different last names. She didnt like it so decided to change the names in july of 2013. She was successful with her first born. My daughters name change was denied because I fought it. The courts saw it as a double edge sword because she wanted to move out of town and could erase me as a father. I was granted parenting time, after a year long battle even though I have always been in my daughters life. The custody was finalized in May of 2014. She took my fathers day by leaving state for the weekend before the ink was dry on the custody order. She fought my first week of vacation with my daughter but I ended up having my daughter with out to much interuption and now my daughter says that her step dad told her she had to call him dad from now on because it would confuse her sister who is a year old. She also informed me she will be changing her name when she gets a little older. She is 6 and I feel like I went to court for nothing (besides the fact that I have parenting time legally now) and I am still paying . My daughter was extremely close to myself and extended family a year ago but it is quickly changing. Is there anything I can do to stop this?

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