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Old 07-24-2008, 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by kellbell View Post
I'm trying to get help with a mayyer involving custody. I have 2 children and have custody of my son but not my daughter, they are by different men. I was working at a job for 2 years 3rd shift, I would take my kids to their grandma's at night then pick them up in the morning at 6:30 a.m. We would go home and then all lay back down but my kids ended up getting out of the house. I got charged with child endangerment but the cops didnt call anyone else. My daughters father called children services and they came out and just said I needed to get a sitter and so I did. The very next day cops came and picked up my daughter from a protection order and I have been to court since then and the judge initiated the order and stated that I only have visitation every other weekend from sat at 6 to sun at 6. Nobody even understands why she issued it, not even children services. Two days later I got my report back from children services stating it was substantiated from neglect due to the fact of them getting outside and not being properly supervised and that they closed my case within 30 days and didnt order any protective services but they reccomended counseling and parenting classes. I have already started counseling and have attended 6 parenting classes. My daughters father is even letting me have my daughter every weekend even though its against the protection order. My son misses her terribly and so do I. She misses us so much and cries when she has to leave my house and her dad has to pry her off of me everytime as well. She tells me she wants to live with me. She has also started wetting the bed and hasn't done this for around a year. I don't know what to do, I keep getting tossed back and forth from the domestic court and DV court trying to find out how to get custody of my daughter back.
It isn't reasonable to expect two children to 1. be able to go back to sleep after sleeping all night, and 2. to expect you to be able to care for them after YOU have worked all night. That is precisely why they ruled you needed parenting classes---meaning, in short, they are questioning your judgment, not your intent ( to do harm ).

Also, the fact that your ex allows you to see the child against the protective order is dangerous because if the court finds out, you could BOTH lose the child. Then who does she have?

If you are in compliance with the court order, petition the court to consider your case again. Make an appointment with whomever issued the order in the first place---that is where you start. Whomever ordered your child taken from you needs to be the one who rescinds or alters the order.

A good attorney should be able to fix this situation for you, if what you have said is true. It is also not customary that one child is taken and the others are not----so either you have misunderstood or misrepresented the reason the child was taken, or either the judge really was acting unreasonably. If the latter, seek help from an attorney---I suspect he can help you very easily.

Good luck.
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