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- Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:11 pm
- Forum: Medical Issues
- Topic: Do judges follow court-ordered shrinks' recommendations?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2384
Re: Do judges follow court-ordered shrinks' recommendations?
I had a friend who had a CPS psych eval. It came back with a diagnosis different from he past and current Psychiatrist. I just don't think that a doctor who sees you over a couple weeks can give a diagnosis. They are just making a guess. A Psychiatrist who works with a patient, gives medication, the...
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:01 pm
- Forum: Sue Them!
- Topic: case against CPS for lack of medical care
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3984
case against CPS for lack of medical care
If it can be proven that CPS should have acted differntly to get a child medical coverage while under their care and the child had significant weight and height loss, meaning going from 87th percentile to 55th percentile in 6 months, is there a case? It has been documneted by doctors that this happe...
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:46 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: What happens if a foster parent violated a court order?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6196
Re: What happens if a foster parent violated a court order?
Yes, I was referring to urgent care. I meant to reply to this before. I just wanted to clarify that the appointment wasn't urgent. There was just an availability the same day. I was pretty upset at the situation at the time, as I should have been. But now that months have past, I look back at the c...
- Tue Mar 28, 2017 7:08 pm
- Forum: CPS Investigations
- Topic: Direction Needed ASAP... Please
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2553
Re: Direction Needed ASAP... Please
I would go to the file room and request a copy of the entire file. Then I would contact the Judge. Or possibly ask for an administrative hearing. I guess if it was my case, and I hit a dead end after this, I'd picket the CPS building. Someone might help. True story...I was helping someone with a lon...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 4:48 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: What happens if a foster parent violated a court order?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6196
Re: What happens if a foster parent violated a court order?
If they can claim it was a sudden or emergency doctor visit, there's no intent to evade the order. What the hell is a sudden doctors visit? That's the first time I heard that term. Well, yeah, it was sudden. It was suddenly made for no reason besides making it a pain in the ass to get to. No it was...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:49 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: What happens if a foster parent violated a court order?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6196
Re: What happens if a foster parent violated a court order?
Evidence of intent? Well, the Judge would not normally do an order for a parent to be informed of a Drs appt, because that is the parent's right already to attend. So the Judge had to go out of their way to spell it out in a court order. Intent? When you are told to specifically do something, then d...
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:11 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: What happens if a foster parent violated a court order?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6196
What happens if a foster parent violated a court order?
The foster parent was told by the social worker to let the parent attend doctors appointments. The foster parent told the parent that they couldn't and the parent pleaded to them to let them. This was brought up in court. The Judge ordered that the foster parent allow the parent to attend and give 3...
- Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Do step parents who adopt have priority over other relatives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2684
Re: Do step parents who adopt have priority over other relatives
The fathers first name is on the birth certificate. But he hasn't been located and it's been 3 years. He was a drug user and became homeless shortly after the child was conceived. And it sounds like that has been his circumstances for the following year at least.
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:00 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Do step parents who adopt have priority over other relatives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2684
Re: Do step parents who adopt have priority over other relatives
I'm in CA. But I believe it's possible in most states, although rules may vary. The child is 3 and the bio father has been 100% absent since before birth, so no visits, calls or support. He knew the mother was pregnant, but that's it. We don't know how to contact him, by phone or address and don't h...
- Thu Mar 02, 2017 11:21 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Do step parents who adopt have priority over other relatives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2684
Re: Do step parents who adopt have priority over other relatives
As far as I know, and I have seen nothing different, other than the adoptive parents have same exact rights as bio parents. It would be a great way to divert a future case towards a certain person a parent would like their child to go to, just in case. That is what will be happening with my friend. ...
- Thu Mar 02, 2017 11:04 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: CPS approval of people you live with
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1852
CPS approval of people you live with
What does CPS need to approve people a parent lives with? Whether a friend or relative or roommate? Do they have to pass a background check? What would disqualify someone? And do they have to take a drug test?
- Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:58 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Can CPS tell a parent to live with a specific person?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2578
Re: Can CPS tell a parent to live with a specific person?
Hi KDus, I have seen enough to realize that there is an overall purpose of helping children and parents to be reunified. But around all of that is a big game. And that game really needs to be realized and played. It's too bad that well intentioned parents and innocent children are put through the st...
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:42 am
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Can CPS tell a parent to live with a specific person?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2578
Re: Can CPS tell a parent to live with a specific person?
Thanks KDus for the details. That makes sense now. You say that they almost always move toward TPR. In my experience in hearing about other people cases (friend and stories from her of others), that TPR and reunification are options t the same time. But it depends on if the parent is doing everythin...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:28 am
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Do step parents who adopt have priority over other relatives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2684
Do step parents who adopt have priority over other relatives
I was curious if a parent who had a previous closed case that resulted in reunification allows their spouse (step parent of the child) to adopt their child, would the step parent who adopted the child have the same priority in placement as a biological relative of the child (grand parent, aunt, etc)...
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 1:03 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Can CPS tell a parent to live with a specific person?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2578
Re: Can CPS tell a parent to live with a specific person?
They can't tell you what to do about such things but they will punish you if you don't comply. Nowhere, nowhere anywhere, in my lengthy case did a report or worker ever say that I should leave my wife. But, that was exactly what they wanted. I was blunt and honest with my attorney and he gave me th...
- Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:18 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Can CPS tell a parent to live with a specific person?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2578
Can CPS tell a parent to live with a specific person?
I know someone with an open CPS case, who is about to complete their plan and get unsupervised visits. The social worker told them that she strongly recommends that she lives with her mother (the childs grandmother). She said "no", she doesn't want to do that. Can CPS require a parent to l...
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 7:54 pm
- Forum: CPS Investigations
- Topic: Adoption to stop children from going to CPS foster home
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4118
Adoption to stop children from going to CPS foster home
If you have had a CPS case and later marry and allow them to adopt your children, will the adoptive stepparent be given priority to raise the children over the prior foster parents?
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 7:00 pm
- Forum: CPS Investigations
- Topic: CPS violating due process
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1902
CPS violating due process
If a case needs to be transferred to a different county and CPS in the original county takes 3 months to send over the file to the new county, and doing so delays the case for 3 months, is this violating rights for due process. As far as I know, all they had to do is copy and mail the file. Once tha...
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:21 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Hierarchy of credibility
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1784
Re: Hierarchy of credibility
I was told by a good court appointed CPS lawyer that is somewhat dependent on the county you are in. But in one county we discussing that everything that a kinship foster parent says about the parent in an investigation is taken as fact by CPS. So they can bury the parent in accusations to make thei...
- Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:31 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: When your case closes can you decide where you live?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1679
When your case closes can you decide where you live?
After your case closes, are you allowed to choose where you want to live? I mean what county and what house? This is assuming you aren't moving in with a drug dealer or something. And assuming the place alone wouldn't cause a new CPS case. Just choosing, like any other free adult in America, where t...
- Sat May 23, 2015 8:00 am
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Right to move out of county
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2301
Re: Right to move out of county
Thanks FamilyMan. Doesn't the state have legal custody when the case is open? If you have your children living with you, then that's physical custody, right? The reason for moving would just be a personal and practical choice and not to evade a cps case. The move would happen regardless of the cps c...
- Wed May 20, 2015 12:44 pm
- Forum: Newcomers - Welcome to the site - please sign in here
- Topic: New here and I don't know what to do
- Replies: 3
- Views: 924
Re: New here and I don't know what to do
I would get my own drug analysis performed ASAP from a reputable lab that you can use as evidence at the initial emergency custody hearing, if it goes that far. No you didn't have to sign any of the papers, and without action from a court, any agreement you do sign or did sign is voluntary. What ma...
- Wed May 20, 2015 12:02 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Right to move out of county
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2301
Right to move out of county
What rights does a parent have to move out of the county where they have a CPS case? Are parents "hostages" to the county where they have a case? Or are they allowed to move if it's in their best interests, due to housing, job, etc?
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:02 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: How to avoid false CPS investigations?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1228
Re: How to avoid false CPS investigations?
Also, I wanted to add something I read on a lawyers site. They said as soon as you know that you are being investigated, get you child a full physical exam and an exam by a psychiatrist if possible and have them mailed to the CPS worker and supervisor, with proof of delivery before the first court d...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:55 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: How to avoid false CPS investigations?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1228
Re: How to avoid false CPS investigations?
I've been waiting to see if anyone had suggestions. I avoided CPS because I home-schooled (most of the time) and also became informed. I did have CPS agents show up again but by then I was awake and aware and managed to head 'em off at the front door. Did the investigation go anywhere? What did you...