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by Eljay
Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:31 pm
Forum: Have Faith and Be Strong
Topic: cps, caseworkers and money
Replies: 7
Views: 2444

Re: cps, caseworkers and money

Thank you for your reply i appreciate it. I ask my grandsons caseworker these questions and she says there all about reuniting and so says my worker but hes through dhs and the other through private. My worker tells me he is new, i didn't get my plan for a couple months, he reschedules my visits or...
by Eljay
Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:27 pm
Forum: Legal Documents
Topic: Motion to have my son Placed back with my mom
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

Re: Motion to have my son Placed back with my mom

If your mom needs the help, absolutely. It's kinda like if you had a wound and could't afford a doctor, a nurse would at least be able to bandage you up. Your BAR complaint... call first, tell them all of your issues, then they will tell you what the "gross violations" of the law/ethics ar...
by Eljay
Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:23 pm
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!
Replies: 21
Views: 3679

Re: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!

Was your daughter ever interviewed by the POLICE? In a "real" forensic investigation of abuse? You, knowing your innocence, would want to get to the bottom of this. I don't know that our Berks County contact would be able to help... maybe.... look over her stuff and see if you find anythin...
by Eljay
Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:38 pm
Forum: Round Table
Topic: why do they want "self referral"?
Replies: 1
Views: 609

Re: why do they want "self referral"?

If you go to your own counselor, then you, for one, will look pro-active to CPS/the court. Second, you do NOT want to go to CPS providers.... they are there to make money as well off of "clients" and also act as "spies" for CPS. They can/will report back that you aren't "mak...
by Eljay
Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:33 pm
Forum: Round Table
Topic: Recording CPS
Replies: 10
Views: 2920

Re: Recording CPS

So very true. You don't really *NEED* the recording.... you need to write down what was said, per your "recollection" at the time. Then, if/when you get to a place in your case/trial where you claim that the social worker said something (that is significant), and she denies it, you say, &q...
by Eljay
Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:55 am
Forum: Legal Documents
Topic: Motion to have my son Placed back with my mom
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

Re: Motion to have my son Placed back with my mom

I just posted this for someone else (but has info for filing your own docs), and notice that the NCIDS is from NC and is something ALL parents deserve to have done for each hearing! http://www.ncids.org/Defender%20Training/2007%20Parent%20Attorney%20Conference/ParentCourtReports.pdf Use the fact tha...
by Eljay
Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:53 am
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: strengths and weaknesses assessment?
Replies: 3
Views: 948

Re: strengths and weaknesses assessment?

You could prepare a Declaration of Facts, just listing those facts, or, title it "Parent Report." Here's a great write-up on what dependency attorneys should do for EVERY client: http://www.ncids.org/Defender%20Training/2007%20Parent%20Attorney%20Conference/ParentCourtReports.pdf Use the f...
by Eljay
Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:41 am
Forum: Legal Documents
Topic: Motion to have my son Placed back with my mom
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

Re: Motion to have my son Placed back with my mom

I could NOT find a form on-line that was the equivalent of what we have out here in California, a "JV-180" which is a form used to ask the judge to change a ruling regarding placement of the child in dependent status. Here is a link to the form. You can use it as inspiration, I guess, or j...
by Eljay
Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:54 pm
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!
Replies: 21
Views: 3679

Re: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!

Don't give up yet... are you in or near Berks County?
by Eljay
Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:01 am
Forum: Have Faith and Be Strong
Topic: cps, caseworkers and money
Replies: 7
Views: 2444

Re: cps, caseworkers and money

Oh, yes. The states fund a basic amount of money and the federal government "matches" funds for foster care, parenting classes, etc. The first federal funding program was started in 1974 by (democrat) Walter Mondale and was called CAPTA (Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act). You can r...
by Eljay
Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:07 pm
Forum: Legal Documents
Topic: **URGENT** Fraud ALERT ”BELLA'S LAW”
Replies: 7
Views: 2616

Re: **URGENT** Fraud ALERT ”BELLA'S LAW”

Sometimes it's better to prepare the forms yourself and hire a Legal Document Assistant or Paralegal to "polish" your forms, if you can't afford an attorney, that is.
by Eljay
Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:05 pm
Forum: Newcomers - Welcome to the site - please sign in here
Topic: neew here and living with a teen using the system
Replies: 5
Views: 1115

Re: neew here and living with a teen using the system

I had to read that a few times... it's tough when it's ambiguous about who's brother/sister. Here's, I think, a guess at what is going on. Mary Smith and John Smith are brother and sister. At least, that is the story that everybody heard. John Smith molested Mary Smith when Mary was a child. Mary Sm...
by Eljay
Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:24 pm
Forum: Newcomers - Welcome to the site - please sign in here
Topic: corporal punishment in indiana
Replies: 6
Views: 1276

Re: corporal punishment in indiana

I'm not positive if these are the most recent, because your state statutes are not easy to track down, but according to this, your child was not SERIOUSLY injured and, thus, does not meet the legal definition. The policy/definition is intentionally vague regarding just what "corporal punishment...
by Eljay
Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:03 pm
Forum: Have Faith and Be Strong
Topic: just a thought
Replies: 1
Views: 1300

Re: just a thought

No. Evil exists everywhere. As awful as CPS is, they DO serve a purpose in the protection of genuinely abused and neglected kids, including the ultimate "neglect" of children whose parents have died or are incarcerated and have no other family to take them in. The parents who genuinely abu...
by Eljay
Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:55 pm
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: strengths and weaknesses assessment?
Replies: 3
Views: 948

Re: strengths and weaknesses assessment?

Yep.... this is "omission of exculpatory evidence" and is a form of perjury. This is why it is so important to: 1. Document, document, document! Not just keeping a file of papers, but writing down/transcribing verbal conversations, phone calls & attempts, attitudes, etc. 2. Request you...
by Eljay
Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:02 pm
Forum: Newcomers - Welcome to the site - please sign in here
Topic: New and facing a safe meeting with dss
Replies: 48
Views: 6587

Re: New and facing a safe meeting with dss

You've made a respectable effort to try to keep the siblings together. You also have made a great assessment of the risks of taking them in. Yes, CPS would likely be all up in your business and once incident with Kid A will get ALL of them taken away. So sad that one woman can destroy so many lives....
by Eljay
Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:58 am
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!
Replies: 21
Views: 3679

Re: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!

1) Are you a lawyer or something? You know a ton about the law. Nooooo.... but I *love* the law and would love to be a lawyer. I have that sort of "logic" mentality that suits the legal profession and that is what probably allowed our case to end so quickly. I hunted down the law that the...
by Eljay
Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:59 pm
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!
Replies: 21
Views: 3679

Re: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!

Further questions, Elijay... 1) Would this likely be brought up during an appeal to the founded hearing? When you say "founded hearing" I think of a child abuse index listing administrative hearing, to have your name removed from the child abuse registry. Those registries use the terms &q...
by Eljay
Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:43 pm
Forum: Drug Related Cases
Topic: BEING RAILROADED
Replies: 5
Views: 2265

Re: BEING RAILROADED

You can take the perspective that you are willing to do what the judge says you should do. Especially if you are doing all that you possibly can, according to CPS. If you don't agree with their plan, then state that you're willing to let the judge decide. The judge/court is there to be the judge of ...
by Eljay
Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:59 pm
Forum: Legal Documents
Topic: Motion to have my son Placed back with my mom
Replies: 13
Views: 3593

Re: Motion to have my son Placed back with my mom

It depends.... If the judge ruled that CPS gets legal custody and CPS has authority to make placements, then it would be up to CPS. If grandma applied directly to the courts for placement and CPS did not approve/endorse it, then it would be the Judge's call (they usually don't do this without CPS be...
by Eljay
Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:15 pm
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: Is acne disfigurement?
Replies: 2
Views: 639

Re: Is acne disfigurement?

OMG. Are you serious???? I'm floored. If you ignored it completely and refused to make him bathe, yes. Teenager with acne??? Seriously???? I suppose if you don't get braces for your kid that's disfigurement too? Or a bad hairstyle? Or their legs are too hairy? On #2, I would say that you should NOT ...
by Eljay
Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:39 am
Forum: Newcomers - Welcome to the site - please sign in here
Topic: false allegations- a jealous ex who is winning so far
Replies: 6
Views: 1087

Re: false allegations- a jealous ex who is winning so far

I suggest you literally HOUND THEM for their reports -- both the police and CPS. Also, while it is fresh in your mind, write down everything that was said to by CPS and PD regarding the results if the interview. Next video your daughter stating how dad coached her... just ask her open ended question...
by Eljay
Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:11 am
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!
Replies: 21
Views: 3679

Re: Unfair "founded" ruling, likely lose kids, please help!

Thank you for the reply Elijay. Unfortunately, in PA a therapist's testimony is not considered "hearsay" the same as it would be in other states. That is, there is no legal impetus for the witness (child) or evidence to be submitted. Yeah, it's messed up. And the case is sleazy as hell (a...
by Eljay
Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:08 pm
Forum: Drug Related Cases
Topic: BEING RAILROADED
Replies: 5
Views: 2265

Re: BEING RAILROADED

Make a list of the consequences that will befall you if you do their plan that you can take to the meeting. If it includes unemployment and neglect of your kids, then ask them to help make adjustments until you find something that works. You are supposed to be a part of the development of the servic...
by Eljay
Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:05 pm
Forum: CPS Investigations
Topic: What are my rights?
Replies: 6
Views: 1409

Re: What are my rights?

It's true that you never had legal custody/guardianship... that's a not-so-good thing for you. To be declared in loco parentis you probably have to search for a form and/or make a motion to the courts to recognize that. Because you didn't/don't have legal guardianship you can't demand visitation, bu...

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