From the PRD:
Ex-Barbarians
A barbarian who becomes lawful loses the ability to rage and cannot gain more levels as a barbarian. She retains all other benefits of the class.
Ex-Monks
A monk who becomes nonlawful cannot gain new levels as a monk but retains all monk abilities.
So you cannot gain levels in either class when you are not the right alignment.
Note though that a monk that becomes non-lawful keeps all his monk abilities; he just can't gain more monk levels. So if you only wanted the single level in Monk, you could become neutral and then take barbarian levels without losing your monk abilities.
There is also an Aasimar sub-race that can take monk levels when neutral good. This costs a trait I think.
Peet
There are alignment restrictions to some select classes.
There shouldn't be, but there are.
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Peet's referring to the Enlightened Warrior trait for Idyllkin Aasimar. It's a racial trait so anyone can take it with Adopted.
I like to think that somewhere in Golarion there is some Aasimar monastery dedicated to a zen fury technique.
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My advice: if he can find role-playing explanation, change the rules - you are the master after all, no those PAIZO masterminds. I always believed that alligment restrictions have sense only within divine classes - priests, paladins, druids. After all alligment theoretically means "what's side you are with" not "what's your favorite fighting style: karate or berseker". You can rage when you see laws broken, or you can excercise you're monky self-control to be better warrior of our lady Lamashtu.
(Or CE avian flying monk of Pazuzu).
Its pathfinder society, so he's bound by those evil paizo fascists!
You're voluntarily switching alignments, so you need to get an atonement to switch. for 450 gp (9th level caster X 5th level spell X 10 gp)
I'd agree with BigNorseWolf - at the VERY least, someone switching alignment should pay for the Atonement spell. In a home game, it would require a lot more role playing, but PFS being what it is I guess you might have to settle for Atonement.
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I'd have to check on it, but I believe there's actually a stipulation that if your character begins acting in fashion counter to your stated alignment, you can become the new alignment that your character is acting as, without need for an atonement spell. But like I said I'd have to check the guide to organized play again.
Just did a search for "atonement" on the most recent copy of the guide. The only instance of atonement (outside of prices) is it being used to "heal" an alignment switch decided by the GM. Nothing regarding the player electing to change alignments.
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Okay, did some reading. Just acting as the new alignment should be enough to get it changed, but if for any reason you need to change back then you must pay for an atonement spell.
EDIT: ninja'd. And that's the section I'm talking about, if you want your monk to become non-lawful start stealing everything you can get away with (without being a jerk to the team). Or just talk to the GM, it shouldn't be a big deal to get an alignment change if you actually act that way in character.
Maybe check his archtypes. A Martial Artist monk can be of any alignment.
It sounds like the character is already generated and has risen to 3rd level. So he won't be able to retool anything like archetypes or traits at this point.
If this is the case you should speak to your local VC about it, explaining that you think that you may have violated the rules. He should be able to figure things out for you.
However, as I said, if your alignment changed prior to 2nd level this is not a problem. Since it doesn't seem to be a problem for any other features of your character, if I was your VC I probably would rule that your alignment changed to neutral and thus was playable all along.
BNW, I haven't kept up with the PFS guide. Is the atonement for alignment switch called out, or is that just a suggestion to avoid the frowns?
From the PFS FAQ
A character may only worship one deity at a time; the character may change which deity she worships between sessions at no cost. If this change requires the character to change alignment, the character is required to pay for an atonement. Any element incompatible with the new deity no longer functions. These elements may be retrained at normal cost using the rules from Ultimate Campaign.
While thats for switching deities and alignments not classes and alignments I think the same thing might apply.