Legal Question in Family Law in Pennsylvania

This maybe long, but here goes:

last year i took my ex-husband back for an increase in child support after 7 years, partly becuase i had been laid off from my job and needed help and partly becuase he has failed to get them according to the custody agreement in years, and the amount before was set with him getting them 3 days a week. He has been making my life ^&*( ever since, threatening text messages, if we do talk he is always combative and nasty. he now for months refuses to talk to me, only going through my daughter if he wants something, and if she tells him to call me to discuss it he refuses. Two weeks ago, i took the kids to my company picnic which he said they could go too, it ran late and i had my daughter call and just see if they could spend the night, well he went balistic, had his lawyer send me a letter telling me i cannot go through the children and that i need to discuss anything with him regarding the children, which i agree with, howerever, he refuses to talk to me, if i call he won't asnwer. Within two days of me getting that letter, he had come and picked them up 4 hours earlier than he is supposed too, he also came today and picked up just one of them to have them for the day without discussing it with me at all. Now, Tuesdays and wednesdays are his scheduled days starting at 4, but he hasn't gotten them in years on those days by his choice he has only gotten them every other saturday night, basically 48 hours a month. Can he really just come and get him without even dicussing it with me, when there is not consistency to when he gets the kids? and that he only came and got one of them? i feel like i am being bullied, that he had one thing on me and went to his laywer which is fine, i agree we need to do the communicating, but he refuses too and now is violating his own letter he had sent to me, can he do that? please give me some advice on what i can do.

i want to mention also, the kids are 12 and 14 and have both stated their concern regarding his threats to them that he will now start getting them tues and weds. Neither of them want this as they are settled in their routine with school and life at my house, he also is constantly yelling at them telling having my daughet in tears telling her i am a C@#$ and that they would be in a card board box living on the streets if it wasn't for him, that they have nothing, how unfair it is that he has to pay that much, can anything be done to stop him from talking to them that way as my daughter doesn't want to go there at all anymore becuase of the way he acts.

Please help.

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