LindaJM wrote:I am so sorry to hear this, Rakhel... did you find out anything more today? Will you be going back to court. I trust that you have a good lawyer.
Did you tell them your plan to move out of state? I'm wondering if they did this intentionally so they could force you to stay in their area.
Sorry it's been awhile, Linda. Lost internet for a while.
We had to go back down to two hour visits and work our way back up. Now we are back to 8 hr day visits.
We have had court twice since that day and both times were interesting.
The first hearing had the referee in a room she wasn't happy with and a bunch of documents she wanted time to read, so she posponed the permanancy hearing until Dec. That hearing I can't report too much on as neither I nor my husband were in the room. We, and the caseworker, got tossed out. Not for anything we did, but for what the ACS attorney was pulling.
She was attempting to extend the case by handing out documents the minute court started, instead of before. This did not please the judge, because this forced a cursury look at documents and allowed for questions to be asked without proper preperation. So when the GAL asked a question concerning what my husband had said after our daughter's accident, all hell broke loose.
WE only found out later that the ACS attorney not only got yelled at for unacceptable work habits but that ACS had lost reasonable efforts. Which we were told was significant.
we go back on Tuesday.
This hearing should be just as interesting.
We have been told that in order to get our son back we must have homemaker services. In order to get homemaker services, we must get a form(Mq-11) filled out by a doctor. We cannot not seem to get these papers filled out.
The first set, we took to our psychologist who said that he wasn't willing to fill them out because we are not disabled, and by filling them out he said he would be committing meicaid fraud.
The agency, after loosing reasonable efforts, said that they would take our physicals and our psych eval, that they obtained after convincing us to have an indipendant eval, and send all that to ACS. ACS told them that that was unacceptable and to have us fill out the papers for the two that have autism.
(A win-win for us at this point.
Pediatrician fills out form, we get homemaker service, son comes home.
She doesn't fill out form, agency is asking for something we can't get, son comes home)
Well... guess what....
She refused. Said that those papers must be filled out by a psychologist(see above).
Happy fun time had by all.
Well most.
So what happens if ACS looses reasonable efforts twice in a row?