Long story, quick facts are caseworker committed perjury to pick up our 14 yr old grandson on Oct 23. He has been in our custody for 9 years. Boy had written a 'suicide note, blaming his thoughts based on living with us'. That was on Oct 17, after a few days in the hospital he changed his tune. I have 2 counselors & the hospital stating that. Caseworker filed her report, we have our first court date Dec 10. We did file an appeal with CPS and the director heard our appeal. She has until Dec 6 to respond. In the meantime, I'm going to rewrite our informal appeal into a Statement of Objections and Corrections to the Report of the Social Worker. How soon before the Dec 10 court date should this be filed?
In the mean time, our boy has been neglected and isolated from family. The same day he was released from the hospital I had scheduled an appointment with a psychologist on Nov 6th. Foster mother barely got him there, neglected to schedule an apt for the following week because she 'was busy' -- cancelled the appointment I had for him on Nov 20. This psychologist is fully covered by my insurance and I'd pay for the deductible at the beginning of 2014. He's not even seeing a school counselor at this time. GAL made an off-hand comment on Nov 23 that 'his cuts are healing up nicely'. He had cut some in Sep but in Oct when he was in the hospital they were mostly white faint scars. I don't know how badly he's cut himself since he's in foster care, they never told me he was doing it. They also cancelled his dental app't I had. He has soft enamel and I'm faithful to get him there every 6 months. I pay out of pocket there and had told caseworker that was my intention this time, too. He had another hospitalization on Nov 15 for several days. Since that date the foster family took away his cell phone. The caseworker filed an order to suspend visitation against me and my husband. Grandson has regularly visited the maternal grandparents, they adopted two of his half-siblings about 12 years ago. Caseworker effectively cut them off from visitation because he won't take their calls or return them. They did get one visit before this caseworker took over, that was Oct 30. The court order to suspend visitation was based on lies used in the first grievance. Can we file something to reverse this?
When tofile Statement of Objection & Correction
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Re: When tofile Statement of Objection & Correction
If the child is now in foster care medical will come in the form of medicaid or whatever they call it in your locality. Depending on our courts, there are time tables for documents to be filed. I am not an attorney, but this would make sense to me: you might check with the court clerk and asked the deadlines for CPS to file their affidavits and reports. Then use that as a timetable for yours.
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Re: When tofile Statement of Objection & Correction
fatherofthree wrote:If the child is now in foster care medical will come in the form of medicaid or whatever they call it in your locality. Depending on our courts, there are time tables for documents to be filed. I am not an attorney, but this would make sense to me: you might check with the court clerk and asked the deadlines for CPS to file their affidavits and reports. Then use that as a timetable for yours.
They filed theirs on 10/31/13. The court date is 12/10/13. Our appeal with the CPS director was 11/22/13. She has the ability to reverse things at this point. I don't think she will because these people are nuts.
The court order to suspend visitation was based on how our last (2nd visit!) went. Boy texted in the morning, demanding his black dress pants. He finally texted "You s###w off and bring my pants tonight". When I got to the visit I told him I wanted an apology for texting me like that. Then I would give him his pants. He blew, stormed out of the room, and eventually was sent to the hospital. I just got another court order to return his 'band uniform pants'. They aren't uniform pants, just off the rack dress pants. So now he's progressed from manipulating his counselors to using the court to get what he wants. Did I say this all started as a discipline issue?
Re: When tofile Statement of Objection & Correction
You should be asking your attorney to file it. Have you discussed this with him/her yet?
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Please keep in mind that none of us are lawyers and we can't give legal advice. We are simply telling you what we would do in a similar situation. It is to your advantage to get a lawyer.
"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke ... so try to do something to change the system ...
Please keep in mind that none of us are lawyers and we can't give legal advice. We are simply telling you what we would do in a similar situation. It is to your advantage to get a lawyer.
"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke ... so try to do something to change the system ...
Re: When tofile Statement of Objection & Correction
LindaJM wrote:You should be asking your attorney to file it. Have you discussed this with him/her yet?
Don't currently have an attorney. We've interviewed 2 and they basically said we had two choices, choice 1, go it alone, do what CPS says and you might get your boy back in 6-12 months. Choice 2, pay for a lawyer, do what CPS says and you might get your boy back in 6-12 months. Neither would agree that we had a case to argue against the lies the caseworker filed to take our boy. The second one really steamed me, but at least I realized I hadn't gotten all the documentation I needed to PROVE the caseworker lied. I have it now. We're going to interview another lawyer but the quickest we can get in is 6 days before our court case.
In the mean time, at day 34 of their custody today, our boy still hasn't seen a counselor set up by CPS. CPS had cancelled the psychologist I set up before they took him. And yesterday our boy overdosed on his Zoloft. We are at day 12 of them denying visitation and all contact with family and friends. They claim they were trying to get his moods under control. Sounds abusive and neglectful to me.
Oh, husband contacted our county commissioners. He cited many failures of CPS, from not returning calls, to not setting up visitation, to failing to provide counseling, to using my insurance when convenient and using their Medicaid when it suited them to use a provider close to them but farther from us though I wanted him seen by a psychologist that would be paid for 100% while Medicaid will only pay for a licensed clinical social worker. Even cancelled his dentist that I always pay out of pocket, and would do so now, but they wanted to use Medicaid.
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