Child Protective Services laws and agencies are abusive to families and children. This site provides support and information to parents falsely accused of child abuse by Child Protective Services.

FightCPS does not advocate or condone violence or illiegal activities of any kind.

FightCPS is intended to help people learn enough about the law to be able to successfully defend themselves and their families against false accusations using legal documents and strategies that put parents in a stronger position when they go back to court.

For more information, see the FAQ.

Child Protective Services, CPS, has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America during the last thirty years leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.

Rather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws in Juvenile Court to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.

Child Protective Services must be stopped! The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed. We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.

Child Protective Services Agents - please come to your senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and inhumane.

Fosterers - be aware that for the money you get you are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness - to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.

CPS workers and fosterers - I ask that you now let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.

Family rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.

It is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.

Site mission: To provide information and support for families attacked by Child Protective Services and child welfare agents, especially those families facing false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect; and for researchers working to protect natural family rights.

Fighting Child Protective Services False Accusations

March 8, 2010

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They are closing my case….all that happened in 2 yrs was a custody change that the mother couldn’t do in the family court…Abusive boyfriend back, drug addict step son back school work is horrible and attendance sucks….but their doing better now!!!!Amazing

Comment by William Cleenput — March 8, 2010 @ 5:13 am

I am an attorney that is helping parents in Texas (and beyond) get their children home. CPS is out of control and I’m hoping to stop them one case at a time. I am passionate about my work and the fight against CPS. Call my office at 7135229777.

Comment by Julie Ketterman — March 8, 2010 @ 5:25 am

I thank you for giving us this form of expression. We not only need this, we also need a way to stop the abuses that CPS has become comfortable with in Court, and are allowed to use, contrary to the “Rules of Evidence” , and the ” Rules of Procedure”, that we as CPS victoms must strictly be in compliance with.
Thank You
Bless you, and yours

Comment by William Brewer — March 8, 2010 @ 7:44 am

i have been fighting with cps for 3 years since the removal of my nephew. they now have my 5 babies and are now going to termination trial. my story is incredibly long, as there are 6 children, and so is the file. I need help. I don’t want to lose my children and we have less then 2 month before the trial begins. without getting into great details and lengths, i will just say the department has refused to return any of my children, and have documentation to prove this.

Comment by les — March 9, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

Keep fighting and do not give up – persistence pays even though you can’t see its results.

Comment by Debra Braxton — March 9, 2010 @ 12:10 pm

My daughter will turn 18 next month and she will graduate this June but you can best believe my exinlaws are going to do the same thing to my daughter as they did when my son turn 18 he is now 21 they will try to stop me from going to her graduation when she turns 18 they are going to put a no contact order on me these county attorney and attorney gereranal lies when they go to court they lie to the Judges I know my exinlaws are going to pull a stunt and it is illegigal I hope my daughter don’t feel the same way about me as my son does my exinlaws and DHS brainwashed my children against and so did the Judges the DesMoines Judges are so corrupted

Comment by Terri Rote — March 10, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

can you help us bring whats left of my sons home from the adopted mother to save them from farther hurt from that family .that family is leaving state with my kids after school is out and i need help to save them from leaving and possible any more damage coming to them .like what happen on aug 4 th 2009 .please i bag you help us for their sack and ours .

Comment by faith — March 11, 2010 @ 9:55 pm

I want to write a book on the stuff that my exinlaws and what DHS has done to me I can write a book I just need a publisher I don’t know how to find one anybody got suggestions?

Comment by Terri Rote — March 12, 2010 @ 12:11 pm

Terri, I know a lot about book publishing. There’s a section on the message board for writing about CPS. Want to meet me there? All authors or potential authors welcome!

Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 12, 2010 @ 1:11 pm

linda where is it at I don’t know much about computers where is this message board at?

Comment by Terri Rote — March 16, 2010 @ 11:06 am

Here’s the link, Terri: http://forum.fightcps.com

Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 16, 2010 @ 11:30 am

My son has been removed from the home. DCFS Wants me to get a divorce, (and I will loose my 2 step daughters with her) take classes for the next year, or loose my handicapped son for ever. How can DCFS make a happy family split up. If my wife moves out, and divorces me they will leave her alone, but they will still make me jump through hoops for years. If I sign over my parental rights they will drop the case all together. If we fight they will file criminal charges on my wife. So how can I sit there and let her go to prison for something that I know she didn’t do? I am so lost without Brandon, whats more I know that I am all he has. I keep hearing “Daddy” “Daddy” “Daddy” over and over in my head. I need help to stop DCFS

Comment by Ken — March 20, 2010 @ 10:58 pm

Ken DCFS

DCFS is a generic term for CPS in IL, CA, and possibly Georgia. ( And possibly many other counties within states)

Suggest you scan & join the Message Boards for folks in those states. There are many.

You sound like you are being railroaded. Please call you local legislator to inquire about your rights re DCFS.

They want your vote. They have heard plently against DCFS already.

You do have rights, you know.

Must join Message Boards for more specifics. Indicate STATE.

Comment by Fern — March 21, 2010 @ 6:36 am

My life has been touched by a earth angel.she didn’t arrive with feathered wings or halos on her,borrowing a face posing as a well meaning neighbor. she has given me hope and love and what i needed the most and that is a visit with my son who is seperated from me by 3000 miles. I belive god places people in our paths of life to give us what we need the most, knowing every thing in our lives is going wrong and we are suffering. I’m flying to ohio to visit my son for 7 day.s i haven’t seen him in 8 months. keep praying god is listening.

Comment by patricia cleary — March 24, 2010 @ 10:55 am

If anyone has read the summary of our story on sue them forums Texas Cps. Our little girl is dramastically going downhill. She has nightmares involving cps and due to Cps blunt investigation questions I would not approach an adult with she has ideas and thoughts now in her head from all of the badgering and drilling her to take us down. We need Help. And I believe without a doubt with legal advise we will be compensated financially but that is besides the point. Our little girl has serious problems now.

Comment by Justicentx — March 25, 2010 @ 5:18 pm

Ms. Ketterman,
Godspeed to you. I am a paralegal in NY who is also working as hard as I can to assist those families tangled up in the CPS nightmare. I wish we were located more closely, geographically.

One thing I have kept in mind when working on CPS cases is to be as “shrewd as a serpent and as innocent as a dove”. Not a bad motto for legal work in general but especially apt when dealing with CPS.

Comment by MaggieC — March 28, 2010 @ 7:23 pm

I just ran across your website, purely out of curiosity. I wanted to see, if by chance, I wasn’t alone in this insane, absurd and totally backwards legal atrocity, wherein CPS/CFS can come into your life, with the city, county, state and federal government condoning the violation of every civil right we have. Posing as an almighty, all knowing savior of what they term, “abused children”. When in fact they are not trained in most cases and depending upon what mood an individual “Case Worker”, is in that day they are assigned to investigate your situation, you can expect to have your good name posted on a National Child Abuse Index, in other words, slandered and labeled as a child abuser, with not so much as charges, an arrest let alone any kind of conviction for such an offense. Not to mention the child you have cared for her entire life being ripped out of your life and away from you through brainwashing, pure deceit and lies.

I lost my daughter because I refused to jump through the hoops of humiliation and self incrimination that Contra Costa County’s Child Protective Services laid out for me. She was nine years old at the time. My court appointed attorney did absolutely NOTHING in the way of defending my position. As a matter of fact, when I voiced my concerns to her regarding same, she told me, quote:, ” Well I believe I’ve been telling you for the last hour, if you want your daughter back into your home, when and if you ever get a home again, you will have to woo her. So I suggest you put your BIG GIRL PANTIES ON and address that issue first and foremost.” unquote. When she told me this I was furious. I went to the judge and formally asked for her dismissal, he refused. It was all downhill from there.

Is there any thing I can do at this point to regain custody of my daughter who they awarded to her father? He happens to be Twice convicted violent offender who has spent over ten years all together in the CA State prison system. I, on the other hand, have absolutely no criminal history whatsoever. I know this all sounds crazy and pretty hard to believe. Believe me, I know. There are many details to the case that I have not gone into and I know from where the average person sits it sounds as if there probably is some merit to CPS’s stand. But if you knew the whole story you would be amazed at the debauchery that took place. People that were involved and have known me to be a good and loving parent, they saw it with their own eyes, witnessing every injustice at every turn and still can’t believe the gall of this so-called proper placement of MY child with a parent that abandoned her and does not even appear on her birth certificate as her father. It’s all so ludicrous!

Is there anything I can do to get her back with me? She is all I had, it breaks my heart and I am reduced to a mound of mush in a cascade of tears every time I bring it up. As I am now as I write this. I achieved every goal CPS would have required of me in so far as the care and housing of my daughter, without using their recommended services. Which was quite a job on my part after being left homeless, jobless and penniless by the man CPS awarded her custody to. Not only did they award her custody to him but they terminated all of my parental rights with little regard for any formalities such as my signature of consent for them to do so. Oh! They also awarded the SS benefits she received that I was custodian of based on my collection of SS disability bene’s to him despite the fact he still owes me thousands in back child support. He never once voluntarily gave me support for that child. To the contrary, he let the water get shut off, as well as the electricity and we were evicted from the house we lived in all due to his neglect. CPS/CFS is a farce, what can I do?

Comment by Leslie — March 29, 2010 @ 12:23 am

Leslie, are your parental rights terminated? If so, I don’t know how to correct that. If it is just a matter of going back to family court, you could do that on your own without a lawyer. Why don’t you call Robert Powell for a consultation? He’s in San Jose: 408-553-0201. He handles a lot of CPS cases. http://www.rrpassociates.com/

Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 29, 2010 @ 5:39 pm

DFACS in the State of GA is ridiculous. The Judges never even take the FACTS into consideration. You are never even given the opportunity to show your evidence. If we (speaking in general) commited crimes against our children then why are we not tried in a court of law? Convicted of neglect? (or whatever else they dream up) I am sure that there ARE children that are abused. My stepmother has 2 Masters, 3 bachelors and a doctorate in child development and teaching. She was “trained” by DFACS in the county she worked and went by the “rules” for child abuse. DFACS concluded that the child in question was to be “watched’. The child died 2 days later from the parents hands. My stepmother was “arrested” and the principal, and school nurse after GA DFACS “trained” her in the reporting of child abuse (she was a school counselor, but not a bad one) she reported it and they said just “watch” for a few weeks and then she is arrested for going by THEIR guidelines, where do they do that at? GA!!!!
We are taught in school that History repeats itself. We learn from our parents and make the judgements the best we can to raise our children. Our grandparents I am sure did not approve of how we were brought up, maybe too much freedom, or not enough rules…….or even too many rules.
I have been in a fight for 3 years at the hand of my in laws of my step children. When I married my husband everything was fine until I made him get custody of his kids back from his parents due to the fact their “mother” had not had but 3 times contact scince they were 6 mths old, they are 14 and 12. My inlaws reported us 12 times and everytime within 3 days it was closed. They finally took them and they were placed with my husbands mothers cousin, now no one can see them, even though there is a order that my husband has visitation and we pay child support. It has been 3 years the Temporary Order is out and there is no other Order in place. Does anyone know if there is not a Order in place and the Temporary Order has expired can my husband go get our kids?
My kids were so deprived my daughter is Ms. Spalding County, Miss Heart of GA and my son was Mr. Heart of GA. Amazing that beauty pageant winners were so neglected, we have a case but the attys we speak with say 8000.00. I would sell my soul to have them back. I can make pmts to the lawyer but they want 8000 up front…. Does anyone know of any good attys that take pmts or I can place my home as caladeral?

Comment by Missing Destiny and Ashton — April 23, 2010 @ 8:58 pm

my children have been removed from myself then my mother they are destroying my life she has made lies and accusations and twisted stories and words my children were removed and put in foster care father never contacted to take his son he called they denied him the right and my family tried to fight for these boys as well i have signed petitions and nothing is helping please pray my children are safe and contact me please (845)332-8089 OR (845)389-6622

Comment by melanie — April 24, 2010 @ 9:00 am

I am a single mother and raising my kids alone.my 17 y/o daughter is disrespectful doesnt think she has to contribute to the house and i recently caught her smoking pot we got into a few altercations since i took all her electronic devices including cell phone so now she is being even more rebelious. we got into a fight the other day and i was holding her arms from hitting me and she started kicking me so i popped her in the head with an open hand to snap her out of it i was at my wits end and nothing was stoping her she ended up with bruises on her wrist from me holding her back from hurting me and i have multiple bruises from her . She called cps and now ther is an investigation should i hire an attorney they did not take my kids “YET” i also have a 12 yr old taht she is poising his mind telling him to not listen to me and i chose to voluntarily let her go to a family members house because she told the cps worker that she waould not be able to control her mouth therefore she would try to instigate me again. please help i am devistated and dont know what to do

Comment by jane — May 5, 2010 @ 8:02 am

Jane, I was in a similar situation a few years ago. My choice was to let my rebellious daughter go live with friends. Once they are over sixteen they are nearly adult and many are ready to be out on their own anyway. You have to let go sometime! Once she left we were all walking around the house remarking on how strangely peaceful everything felt. So, enjoy that feeling of freedom from constant emotional upheaval… and spend more time with your younger child.

Comment by Linda Martin — May 6, 2010 @ 11:07 am

I am extremely heartbroken. I had a set of twins with my now deceased husband (he passed of a heart attack in 2008). I did not handle this well. I am codependent and jumped into another marriage. It was abusive and CPS asked me to (no TOLD me to) divorce him. It took a few months but I did get the divorce. A few months later and I should add that i was questioned by a Psychiatrist who said because of my codependency that I should not date for two years. Well, the caseworker I had at the time never told me this. I found a very healthy and happy relationship with a man a few months later then my caseworker had her baby and a new one was assigned. This one revealed the shocking information that i couldn’t date for two years. (I was blown away as she continued to put me down and ask what I was thinking). As to why the other never told me I have no clue. I ended that relationship but was told not to talk to or see this person again. This person has no record or anything negative about him that would be a threat to me or my twins. Months later I ran into this person and he asked if he could apologize to me for his reaction to me breaking up with him. I talked to him, but my children who had just been returned to me were in the next room safely with staff and my best friend. When CPS found out I had talked to this person they removed my children and set to terminate my rights and adopt my children out. I am heartbroken. I have joined Al-Anon, taken two parenting classes, jumped through every hoop they presented, but yesterday at a child and family team meeting the caseworker told me there is no chance that I can win this and the children most likely would be adopted by foster mom. I have always thought this was their plan anyways. I have to go to trial and plead with a judge and prove to him that I am a good mother, I just don’t know what to say. I have no bad reports, everyone can see that I am a loving mother with my children and that they love me. I am wondering what it is exactly they plan on using to prove me unfit–because isn’t that what CPS has to do in order for you to lose your children permanantly? Please, if anyone can shed some light on this I would be eternally grateful. I went from having them full weekends to two hour supervised visitations. I am beside myself. I cannot imagine losing my children forever–being a mother is all I know. I will do anything…please can you help me? What do I do?

Comment by Canella — May 6, 2010 @ 11:18 am

Canella, you can start by writing a declaration telling your side of what happened. See our Legal Document and Information Library for a sample… you might also need “Objections and Corrections to the Report of the Social Worker.”

To do well in court you need to BE PREPARED with legal documents and PROOF that you’ve completed the court’s reunification plan. Read: Who Will Help Prepare Your CPS Case?

Honestly, your case is one of the more egregious I’ve heard of. Relationship control is a sick business. My sympathy to you, your former boyfriend, and the babies!

Comment by Linda Martin — May 7, 2010 @ 10:17 am

Are there any help sources for Wichita and Topeka Kansas? I am dealing with a lot of things with CPS in KS and would like any info on help in this region. I am fighting and fighting. My 3 y/o was taken in Jan and my adjudication hearing is the 27th of this month. Since then I had a baby and he was taken a week ago when he was two weeks old. My story is horrendous and can be found on my Facebook page. Any help is appreciated.

Comment by Crystal — May 10, 2010 @ 9:45 am

Crystal, check with this organization as one of the founders had a KS case: http://www.cpswatchlegalteam.com/

Comment by Linda Martin — May 10, 2010 @ 12:14 pm

I am a resident of California. From Nov 08- Feb 09 I was hospitalized for severe health issues, stemming from my last pregnancy in 2005. I was in a coma for quite awhile and woke up deaf. The day I got home from the hospital CPS came to my door to inform me that my daughter had been molested by her father, my EX husband. My children(girl,14 boy,12) had been placed with my EX inlaws, the molesters parents. We’ve been at odds since I left their son. I have done everything that was asked of me and THEN SOME to get my kids back. I have never been introuble by “the law” before…well, except a speeding ticket. I was told, “do what you are told and you will get your kids back.” The court date came..and this apparently was enough time for the grandparents to brainwash my children because they came up with the craziest lies I have ever heard in my life. I STILL, after 16 months get one hour of SUPERVISED visits a week. Most of them are missed because the FSW has “family emergencies” and can’t make it to pick up my children, or because of holidays, NONE of these visits have been made up The children are now saying they dont want to see me at all, but they want contact with their father…the MOLESTER!! I dont understand why they couldn’t see that placing my children with my EX inlaws was a BAD IDEA!! They had my daughter stand up in her fathers trial hearing to read a letter stating that she forgives her father for what he did and he only did it because he wasnt taking his medication:( I have since had two Cochlear Implant surgeries, so I am able to hear. Now that this is all supposed to go to trial, the kids are now saying that they are afraid of my husband..their step father. We’ve been married since 2003 and have two children together that are in the home. CPS is EVIL, EVIL, EVIL! I am a non offending parent that has done EVERYTHING to get my children back, followed all the rules, and went above and beyond doing the “right thing”. I dont see how the can just take someone’s kids away from them, expect them NOT to get emotional about it and NOT be angry. This is just PURE INSANITY!!

Comment by Lori — May 11, 2010 @ 10:09 pm

I was snitched on by a neighbor. I went to drop off a friend who only lived 10 miniutes away. I left my preschool kids in the house with their 9 yr old cousin. They managed to unlock the door and come outside, a neighbor saw them. now cps is investigating

Comment by kiki — May 13, 2010 @ 11:25 am

5/14/2010
CPS is the devil himself
Denver, CO Cps has been in our lives for two years now because of a pediatrician turning us in for homeschooling. Since then, our child, who has Autism and is non-verbal, has been court ordered to attend public school. He went to school all last year and we have jumped through all of their hoops for two long years now.
This year our boy has missed a lot of school due to illness, sleeping issues and lack of communication and cooperation from his school. The social worker who is totally unknowledgeable about Autism and all the behavioral, health, and sensory issues that go along with it, thinks we are just keeping him out of school on purpose even though we explain to her why he misses school. We even take him to the doctor when he’s sick and we get excuses.
Now, just recently, he has been court ordered to go to school no matter what, unless excused by a doctor, or else be taken away from us, his loving parents. Well, the day he was to go back to school after that court hearing, he came down with the croup, we kept him home and took him to the doctor’s. We got an excuse also. He stayed out of school a few more days because he was very sick, plus he has a very low immune system on top of it which makes it harder to get over illnesses. When he finally went back to school after being sick, he wasn’t completely well, we dropped him off with a professional therapist who is court ordered to help see him off to school from our home. When the Para professionals, teacher’s aides, brought him to the car after school, he got into the car and as we were driving off we noticed a rip in his pants in the crotch area. We did not know how big the rip was until we got home and changed his underwear. The rip was a 6 inch gaping whole in the entire crotch area that was initially cut then torn by, we believe, someone at the school. There was no way our child did that himself and there was no playground equipment there, there’s no explanation for it. When we saw that, we immediately called the classroom to ask the teacher what happened. NO answer after we left three messages asking her to return our call. So, I emailed the superintendent and told them about it. I said I wanted to know what happened to the pants. Again, no answer. I called my advocate to ask what we should do but could only leave her a message. She apparently got my message but instead of calling me back, she called social services. The next day social services called and wanted to get the police involved. We did not want to do that just yet but we had no choice at that point. Our child was examined by the crisis center’s doctor and everything was documented with pictures taken of some bruises on his thighs as well. He had to miss school that day too. We kept him home for two days after the incident because we were very worried about what happened and not having any explanation or answers made our anxiety go through the roof. Little did we know that our caseworker would come over to our home to blame us for the incident and accuse us of causing it ourselves just so we could keep our son out of school. She believed the school when they eventually said that we sent him to school that way. We have a witness that he did not arrive to school that way but she did not care what we had to say about it. Now her and the Guardian Ad Litem for our son is requesting removal of him and are asking for custody because she claims that we have made this whole thing up to avoid sending him to school, even though we have since sent him back even during this investigation that’s going on because of the pants incident. All the while being worried sick and having lots of feedback from rational people/parents of special needs children telling us that we did the right thing to tell someone and we should be demanding answers and keeping him out until we get them. Our caseworker is claiming we are using this as just another issue with that school and an excuse to not send him. She is also saying that we are mentally unstable using this school incident as an excuse to keep him at home. We are not even keeping him home from school, because of their constant threats. We have even just added additional speech and OT therapies to his agenda outside of the school setting and he is going to summer school. She has been on case for two years now and we sent him to school all last year. He has always gotten services throughout his life since his diagnosis such as speech, OT, feeding clinic, Day Treatment at the Children’s Hospital for his sleep and feeding issues. None of anything we do or have done matters to this rotten evil caseworker and GAL. This Guardian Ad Litem, who is totally new to our case, is stating she believes that we are incapable of getting him the services that he needs.
But we have been all these years. She is crazy. She is just making up things that make no sense whatsoever just to go along with the caseworker.
This is a travesty.
I want the whole world to know how evil CPS and social services is. They will stop at nothing and use ANY made up excuse possible to completely destroy children, their families and lives period.
This is as outrageous as anything can ever get.

Comment by Denise — May 15, 2010 @ 3:16 pm

To mak eit short- I called CPS bc my ex wife hit my son and had broken his finger, she admitted in court ti hitting him, she admitted to not being able to control her self, my son was removed from her care twice-2 yrs later and 6-9 case workers later- me and my ex wife charged with emoional abuse to our son-

CPS claims that we cannopt get along and all we do is fight in front of my son-we are court ordered not to talk to each other but with all the lies the judge buys the fact that we continue to fight-

I do not even speak to my ex wife.

CPS can lie in court and make their case but they do not feel keeping a child from his parents for 2 years will casue him emotional abuse, they do not believe that a child will act out bc he wants to go home.

If the court and cps read their own cos which state that the removal of the child is bc his in harms way while living with his mother, her evaluation with 20 remarks needeing help herself, admitting tio hitting your own child bc you cannot control your self- oh wait I for got to tell you. she use to work for cps-she stole my sons child support for 6 months, the judge does not make her pay back the money nor does he make her pay any childsupport for the last 2 years.

CPS does not care about father who love and care for their own children, who have been in their lives since birth,why does CPS not give fathers a chance to raise the children, why does CPS favor the mother- they system does not care about fathers and that is very sad.

Comment by Adrian — May 19, 2010 @ 10:26 am

I need help ASAP. CPS just placed my daughters with my husband. (which is fine) but CPS told him that we had to split up so he can take them instead of them being in foster care. So of course we did. What happened was my husband and I were having problems. He told me he didnt love me anymore, so in order to get his attention, I scratched up my wrist. I went into the “crazy” hospital just for over night. Saw the dr the next morning and he told me, I was fine, no need to be placed on meds or anything, I wasnt suicidal, I was just pissed up and it was a desperate cry for attention. Now CPS has placed my 2 youngest kids with my husband and says they can come get my 3 older kids whenever they want. I asked how long all this should take to be done and over with. (after completion of their safety plan (psychological evaluation) they said they can drag it out for months. Im so scared. I need someone to help me.

Comment by Ina — May 19, 2010 @ 3:30 pm

I am a grandmother of two boys currently in the hands of cps arapahoe county colorado All parents rights have been pulled i called cps in 2002 with concerns there were alligations of sexual abuse and they left them in the home with there mother who now is siting in jail with 33 counts and her husband who is now a registered sex offender with 16 counts Cps didnt remove these kids until 2008 so these kids went through 6 more years of abuse because cps dropped the ball I an now trying to get them from cps hands If anyone in colorado could help please call carol 720-297-5176 I would love to hear from you

Comment by carol — May 21, 2010 @ 9:42 pm

I need help.. My 2 year old son got his arm caught in the crib and i guess it twisted. I took him to the E.R and they took xrays, his arm is fractured and dislocated at the elbow, they called CPS and with out any investigating or court order they took my daughter and placed her with my mother in-law. They are holding my son at the hospital until my mother in-law can come get him, which he was ready to go home yesterday, but now might have to stay until tomorrow. They also questioned my 5 year old daughter for 2 hours!! Is any of this legal?

Comment by Jessica — May 26, 2010 @ 5:55 am

My ex made a report that I had been feeding my child dead dogs. The worker went to my child school to pull him out of class to ask him if I was taking meds and told my child that I had told her that I had asked him how did he like the hair on the dog and told my child not to tell me about her coming to his school. I can’t belive these people would do a thing like that.My ex told me that is the one that made the report. CPS said don’t charge people who make false reports.

Comment by Betty — May 28, 2010 @ 6:15 am

My aunt had my mom sent away when I was 5 she called cps to have her taken out of the home. My aunt also had called cps on her own kids to have their children taken out of the home to have them placed into her home so she get a check, when her grand children had children she did the same thing to them so she could get a check.

Comment by Betty — June 2, 2010 @ 6:24 pm

There is always somebody to drag you down.No matter how good of a person you really are or what you do to try to better yourself there is someone behind you to pull you back.

Comment by Betty — June 2, 2010 @ 6:40 pm

My 17 year old daughter got upset with me after an argument over her not doing her homework. As her brother drove her to school the next morning, she advised him of her plan to cry profusely in order to be sent to the school counselor. She told such a tale that the school called CPS and her grandmother. CPS came to my door and i told them “not without a warrant and a police officer.” They returned the next day with the warrant and the officer. The warrant stated that they would be removing her from my home due to emotional reasons. I panicked and did not notice that the warrant had no case number or that it was dated a year ago. I called her dad, my ex, and asked him to come over. He lagged because he had been drinking and had an ounce of pot at his house. I thought that would be better than foster care. It has been five weeks now and he has stopped all communication with me because I balled his mother out for taking my daughter to her psychiatrist and trying to take her off of her greatly needed psychiatric drugs. I am at my witts end. I feel betrayed, I have no Idea how my daughter is doing and I know that my ex is regular drinker and pot smoker. I do not want my child in this environment or with the grandmother. She is a bad influence to my girl. I just cannot believe that the ex was not given a brethalyzher test prior to driving off with my daughter. The CPS narcissist that was involved in my case had clearly taken a blow to the ego with my warrant comment and it was all personal. It was clearly evident that my ex was under the influence. I am so hurt, angry, apalled, you name it, that’s me. CA fury!

Comment by Linda — June 3, 2010 @ 1:27 am

Linda, at 17 your daughter is the one at fault for not keeping you informed, not the father, CPS or anyone else. If your daughter doesn’t want to call there’s not much you can do. Why not just be happy for the peace and quiet in your home and enjoy taking care of your son? You can call there once a week to see if she’s ready to talk to you, or in some way let her know you still care, but personally I wouldn’t waste too much time or worry on a daughter who is not willing to keep in touch. I want you to know I have such a daughter as well… so I know it hurts but you’ll just have to get used to it until she changes her mind. As for your ex’s drugs and alcohol, I wouldn’t keep telling the caseworker that. Or anything else. In fact, just ignore the caseworker as much as you’re able. They’re always fishing for information and playing one parent against another. If you still have your younger child that’s the best you can hope for now; detach yourself from the one who did this awful thing to you, and be grateful they didn’t take all your kids.

Comment by Linda Martin — June 3, 2010 @ 8:09 am

Anyone know a good lawyer in Idaho close to Pocatello, Idaho Falls or Blackfoot I need help fighting CPS

Comment by Bobbie — June 10, 2010 @ 6:35 pm

please have someone contact me as soon as they get this so we can go over my case(941)565-7148 im about to lose my little girls do to the fact of a case worker who hasnt done his job and the guardian ad litem who is best friends with the care taker who is my x mother inlaw not really mother inlaw did marrie her son he die but we were togetter for 7years….

Comment by tiffany — June 14, 2010 @ 7:56 pm

Tiffany, there is nobody here running this site who contacts people by phone. You’re welcome to join the message board forum and request feedback from your case from the advocates that post there.

Comment by Linda Martin — June 15, 2010 @ 11:28 am

hi i am in need of some advice i have a 3 and 4 year old, and they have been victims of cps. i am in trial right now because they say my boyfriend is not fit i could use some advice my attorney is good but i could use some other in put or help along the way if you have any advice for me please call or email me thank you.

Comment by krystle — June 18, 2010 @ 6:30 pm

or sorry my number is 586-932-7548 or krystlemspicer[@]yahoo.com thank you for your time my boyfriend has a back round he dont have a perfect record but thats no reason to take my kids away.

Comment by krystle — June 18, 2010 @ 6:33 pm

I have a few questions i had my first three kids taken from me and they where adopted and the case is closed can they take my fourth child for my first three beeing taken?

Comment by Nicole — June 19, 2010 @ 12:19 am

Nicole, yes, they can. The law that allows that is called ASFA… the Adoptions and Safe Families Act.

Comment by Linda Martin — June 20, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

I am a single mother of three boys… a four month old, a five year old, and a seven year old. About a year ago I had my first interaction with cps/dss in the state of new york. My entire family’s life became hell manipulations and confrontations twisting of this and that lies apon lies and wrong doings to a point of hell. They finally came into the home inwhich I lived in about one month ago and took my three children leaving me no contact for days and only one visit a week for an hour to date. They lied to the children and said they would be home in three days apon removal. Our entire family aunts uncles grandparents myself and the two fathers of my children and the children are going through hell beyond upset. Imagine being taken away from everyone you love everything you have ever known taken to be with strangers taken away by strangers what would that do to you. They accuse me of neglect with a loving caring family no injuries have ever happened no hospitalizations just kids growing up being loved smiling in pictures clean and happy. Something is wrong here something is really wrong. I need help desperately my story is long but right now I am looking for a real attorney it has taken me time to get the money together i am set for trial in one month. I dont want to lose my children and the horror stories I have read online are scaring me to death. Our family has three holes in our hearts and the children there holes are many. Anyone out there that can help please I beg u state of new york county of orange they have my children help me can you direct me to get help even I need you out there to assist me if you can in any way i dedicate these words to my children who have been taken. Maybe someone out there can help my god hear my prayers…. you may reach me at my email address…

Comment by Melissa — June 22, 2010 @ 4:31 am

I am in arapahoe county colorado I am in the appeal process because they terminated my parental rights. I miss my baby. I did every thing these people asked of me it didn’t matter they refused to place my daughter with any family my baby was taken to abusive foster parents and there for it doesn’t matter that I completed my treatment plan. They say my daughter is in a perminate home and that’s all that matters. Well why do criminals deserve a fair trial and family court makes up what ever they want and that’s all that matters. I need help with an appelat attorney and someone to help me sue gal the county and foster parents for neglecting and abusing my precious baby. God please protect my baby and return her home safe!!!!

Comment by sandie — August 18, 2010 @ 9:03 am

August 18, was my arrainment. My children are still in my care. They have terminated my husband’s parental rights which I don’t like. ChildNet is involved, Children’s homesociety, and a mental health clinic. My children and me are being forced to take classes. I have to do individual counseling, parenting classes and family counseling. My children have to take individual and family counseling. On June 2, 2010, there was a domestic issue between me and my husband. CPS didn’t say that they were filing a dependency case, they simply said you and your children are court ordered to take classes and if you don’t attend they will remove the children. My husband and I are being charged with neglect. I don’t have a job and my van’s transmission is out, and I can’t go look for one because of these various classes that I am in, but they insist that we take these classes. I was homeschooling my children and the ChildNet advocate told me that I can’t homeschool them, I am very upset about that. I just started a new homejob on August 16th and I was told that if I missed my court hearing that me and my husband would lose our children so I had to take off from work. These people have nothing better to do and are wasting tax payers dollars. Every night before going to bed I am praying and every morning when I wake up I am praying because these people haven’t gotten to know us as loving parents, but they are just doing a job for a pay check. It’s crazy.

Comment by LC — August 19, 2010 @ 4:46 am

LC – first, please don’t use your name to write about your case on the internet. It is an unusual name and the caseworkers will probably be looking for it on the internet, using Google. Second, if you still have your kids you are luckier than most. Do try to do everything they request. Bucking them at this point could result in losing your kids so bear with it. I know it is hard to complete the services, but do your best.

Comment by Linda Martin — August 19, 2010 @ 8:30 am

I am using my blog http://autismcustodybattles.wordpress.com to educate attorneys and evaluators on the complexity of custody battles with children who have Autism. Please take a moment to read and join my cause. If you know a NEW YORK attorney that wants to work pro bono, have them contact me.

Comment by Autism Custody Battles — August 26, 2010 @ 3:23 pm

My husband has been falsely accused of abuse of my stepchild and has been made to be seperated from from our family too. Stepchild does not live with us but with her mom and stepdad. How long of a process is this CAC meeting with stepchild going to take so the right person is caught and/or my husband is cleared of these allegations. We firmly believe that my stepdaughter is still in the home with perpetrator and nothing is being done about it because someone accused my husband. This is very frustrating. My family is also being torn apart. Any suggestions from Linda M.

Comment by Missy — August 29, 2010 @ 7:18 pm

Missy, have you been to court? Do you have an attorney? If no attorney, you need one right away. Please register at the message board for more feedback on your case. I am guessing you have other children that the caseworkers want to protect. If so, do not ever let your husband into the home or around them or the caseworkers will take your children. Why would your stepdaughter accuse the wrong person?

Comment by Linda Martin — August 30, 2010 @ 7:29 am

i have been going through a tough time with my 10 yr old shes been to numerous institutions, several police reports made due to her physical abuse on me, psychiatrists recommendations for her to be placed in group home. i have two younger boys who are being exposed to her behaviors and that doesn’t need to happen i called cps to ask for help and they are charging me with neglect. why is it that i have not done anything and being charged with this. are they crazy what can we do to fight this organization something needs to be done at a national level and pronto. parents are suffering and being charged with false charges for their child acting out.why???????

Comment by suzanne — August 30, 2010 @ 8:44 am

cps in Houston,Tx is not doin there job.I strongly believe that they do not stand for protecting the children,they remove children based on their own thoughts not taking into consideration what the real issue is.My children were home interviewd and my children expresse themselves from their heart of the abuse and neglet that their father does to them and NO ONE HEARS their Cries. I did what I could to protect them and CPS failed to their JOB!

Comment by maria — August 30, 2010 @ 10:18 am

Suzanne, so sorry you phoned the wrong agency. You should probably follow the psychiatrist’s recommendation. You have to protect your younger children. I know that hurts, because I’ve had a child somewhat similar. Well, now with CPS involved you will have to follow the court ordered service plan if you’ve been to court and agreed to their neglect charge. Please join us on the message board if you want feedback on your case.

Why CPS charges you with neglect when you’ve done nothing but try to get help for your children: this is an agency that looks for people in distress then kicks them while they’re down. The caseworkers may not want to hurt you, but they’ve got a “one size fits all” plan (you’ll see, it is called a “service” plan) and they don’t make any allowances to help people in the ways they need rather than forcing them into their plan. This is because the laws and funding give them limited choices, due to corruption at the Federal level of government.

Comment by Linda Martin — August 30, 2010 @ 9:49 pm

Maria, it isn’t just Houston CPS. The CPS agencies are corrupt almost everywhere.

Comment by Linda Martin — August 30, 2010 @ 9:53 pm

dss made my 9 year boyfriend move out because they chared us both with neg. a year ago because he hit me. then dss let him move back if he com pleted anger manegment and counsling.now a year later my 14 year old dauhter went and told the school he slapped her mouth and they told him he had to leave agin until they investigate it.so dss is trying to violate him and put him in jail.I live in st. larence county and these dss people are terible.

Comment by carrie — September 23, 2010 @ 11:39 am

Carrie, thank goodness you still have your daughter with you!

Comment by Linda Martin — September 24, 2010 @ 10:13 am

CPS hounded me for yrs & finally got my grandchildren from me.I already posted a webcam comentary I made a couple of yrs ago.
My 16yr old granddaughter got pregnant shortly after they took her & now CPS has HER baby!
This child was not pregnant when with me!
She is 17 now & running wild!Thanks to CPS & Beeville ,Texas’s Teen mother Program in their High School!
They babysit while you go to school to screw!
The messages they are sending are ungodly & devistating!

Comment by Janie — September 25, 2010 @ 12:54 pm

Janie – there’s a grandparents section on our message board and you would be very welcome to participate.

Comment by Linda Martin — September 25, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

The way our story starts is similar to many other wrongfully accused men, here goes CF, my man was accused of molesting his now ex girlfriends daughter and HHS in NE told her to stop acting goofy and we have to make the story sound good. This is all in their papers they handed to our attorney. Now CF is convicted on evidence of 19 pictures of a dirty house and a girl that said CF’s father was present in Dec of 2002 building rabbit cages when the man died in Dec of 2000. No vaginal check was ever done on this girl, but her story changed so many times during all the hearing that were had and brought back a dead man during the trial of CF that I have a really hard time believing the kids that CPS or HHS use for these trials. Now its an election year in NE so they are going apes at seeing how many men they can get behind bars and not have a stitch of evidence to prove they are guilty. Best part of trial week was the girl got paid $120 per day to testify. They even stated on March 28, of 2008 they have no physical evidence at all. The girl could not look eye to eye with the jury members and say he did it. She is now got a new name, new car and lots of fun new things. So if there is to be any justice done we need to open these cases back up and get to the bottem of it all. We have crooked lawyers, judges, attorney generals and jury members. if there is an attorney that could help me please contact me at 308-391-5824 we have alot of the wrongduings on paper. Help!!

Comment by LaVon Fieldgrove — September 25, 2010 @ 9:25 pm

LaVon – you might want to put this on a page that attorneys are more likely to scan: http://fightcps.com/2010/09/01/post-here-if-you-need-a-cps-defense-lawyer-september-2010/

Comment by Linda Martin — September 26, 2010 @ 8:36 pm

Your website is a lifesaver from CPS. My CPS worker is a liar and a manipulator. I told her I want my child to be interview with a videotape and with me present. She told me our state or county does not videotaped (a lie!). I told her give it to me in writing from the governor himself (she couldn’t say anything to that!). That was one instance where she lied. My daughter told her that she will not talk to her unless I am with her. The social worker and the deputy high tailed themselves out of my house and didn’t even say “thank you” or “good bye”. I said “good bye” though. Lesson learned, do not be intimidated by the CPS officials, know your rights because they will not tell you your rights. My CPS worker is evil and I do not trust her or anyone in CPS for that matter. Your website is wonderful. Keep up the good work. Knowledge is power, people, it can save you a lot of headaches and heartaches.

Comment by Jamie — September 28, 2010 @ 4:53 pm

Thanks Jamie! I hope they are gone from your life forever!

Comment by Linda Martin — September 29, 2010 @ 9:47 am

Me and my husband are going to court on the 18th of this month to have our parental right taken away of our 14 year old and our 3 year old is being adopted. I have been only dealing with CPS for a year. I thought i was entitled to more time. Although I have heard horrible stories of CPS. I just thought this would never happen. Although I have made some very stupid mistakes and have let CPS and their lies get the best of me. I am having a hard time dealing with them since it is my first time being in this kind of trouble. I just really need to know what I can do to turn this around. Evidence that I submitted to my Public PRETENDER has not been submitted I assume because I do not see any of it in what documents I have received. I also wanted to know shouldn’t I be receiving all paperwork and accusations that have been submitted to the judge? When all of this started I was told to go through the documents and make notes on what I thought were discrepancies. Like my oldest daughter being pulled out of public school by me and they had no record of me re-enrolling her. I did pull her out of public school due to her having head lice numerous times. I put her in private school with the financial help of my father and grandmother. Just one example of the lies they told. I am no angel but really I can do bad all by myself and did because of deep depression. I know that this is no excuse, I just need to know what are my rights and how can I get my children back, and yes my children want to come home. Even the 3 year old says that she wants to come home.PLEASE HELP I AM HANGING ON A STRING.

Comment by Gina — October 2, 2010 @ 1:54 am

Gina, have you written “Objections and Corrections to the Report of the Social Worker”? Links to samples are posted in our legal document library. You must be registered at our message board for those links to work. Read: Who Will Help Prepare Your CPS Case?

Comment by Linda Martin — October 2, 2010 @ 8:19 am

does any one know anything a bout Orchard children services. they were sent to a friend of mines house by cps are they there to help the family or are they just another part of the courts trying to build a case aginst this family. Their web site make them look like a charitable organizaion but but further checking showes that they are over 80% funded by the government. any device on this would be helpful. this is in Michigan thank you

Comment by diane — November 4, 2010 @ 8:56 pm

Diane, I don’t know anything about this particular organization, but I know that if they see anything out of line at your friend’s house they will report that to CPS. It is like walking on a tightrope not knowing if you’re about to fall. You never know what might set the other person off. She just has to try her hardest to be “perfect” even though we don’t live in a perfect world. It is important to have a good attitude – because if you argue with them or act like you don’t want them there they may cop an attitude and start looking for ways to destroy you.

Comment by Linda Martin — November 6, 2010 @ 9:31 am

cps rolled through our lives about three months ago, and it has been pure hell ever since, in my eyes all they do is tear familys aparti dont know how they think they r qualified to make such family oriented dissions when they r not warranted all it did for my perfectly happy granchildren was devastate them, i think this has to stop, i think we need to take this one all the way to washington this needs to go all the way to congress! if anyone else feels this way e mail me at dinomutt45[@]yahoo.com

Comment by charlene — November 11, 2010 @ 5:39 pm

Charlene… congress in Washington DC doesn’t care. That’s the source of the corrupt and evil laws that are causing all the problems. Believe me, others before you have appealed to the US congress. It doesn’t work; nothing changes. Best to go to state legislators and tell them you support state sovereignty and that the child welfare laws are a violation of the US Constitution’s Tenth Amendment. States need to say NO to the corrupt federal government’s child welfare laws and funding. See Seven Ways to Fight CPS.

Comment by Linda Martin — November 12, 2010 @ 11:55 am

Our grandson we raised from 4 1/2 years was removed from our home due to false accusations from OCS, it seemed the Judge was against us and at the end I took and instant drug screen in court and was told I failed for THC. My attorney said she was sorry there was nothing she could do and the Paternal grandparents were awareded custody of which turned us in several times with lies. I did take a drug screen after court and it was clean. I had a hair follicle the Judge said she couldn’t accept because they can be cheated on. I have proof of the lies and need to know how to get a attorney we can trust and will fight. They are expensive like $2k every time you go to court. It’s been a year now and he wants to come home. Their $ can’t buy everything and it’s not about love with them it’s about power. HELP we’ve been devasted and would like unsupervised visits.

Comment by Debbie — November 19, 2010 @ 8:10 pm

Debbie, if your CPS case is closed, try filing for visitation in family court. There’s a grandparent’s area on our message board forum: http://forum.fightcps.com … hope to see you there.

Comment by Linda Martin — November 20, 2010 @ 12:13 am

CPS ARE CORRUPT….THEY ARE NEGLEGENT AND DOWN RIGHT EVIL….. I have been in a case with CPS for almost two years now, They have taken my two children (3yrs,2yrs) because i missed one immunization. I have proven to these people that I do not in anyway shape or form do drugs. They came into my life and in a matter of 2weeks they had my children and was making me divorce my husband whom i dependended on for almost 6yrs now. They lied and told the court that I was smoking a joint of marijana when they came to my home,they lied and told the court that I did not call them at all to see my children. Me and my husband are indeed one of those families who struggles to pay bills, We applied for help before this happend and the Department of Health and Human Resources of West Virginia in Martinsburg denied us any benefits but yet they told the court we were recieving help from them all along??? They lied and told the court I up and moved to places when I didnt. They lied and told the court they did not tell me things when in fact they did… I have so much more things in my case that would blow peoples minds.. These people at this department are evil I believe strongly in my heart there are things going on that are bigger than my case or yours.. It was brought to my attention that the Gaurdian Ad Litem and My judge infact are disputiing which is why my case went spiraling (POLITICS) How fair is that. My now two yr old son has no clue who mommy and daddy are and my three yr old daughter is starting to forget. These people are illegally (but Legally) taking children from low income homes and adopting them out for their own financial benefits..(BLACK MARKET ADDOPTIONS) OHHHH YEAH they exists… IF ANYONE OUT THERE HAS INFORMATION ON WHAT I CAN DO OR IS GOING THROUGH THIS SAME MESSED UP SITUATION PLEASE CONTACT ME WE NEED TO RAISE AWARENESS TO THIS, THIS IS NO JOKE DO NOT WAIT UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE PLEASE!!!!! My email- ibda12playah807[@]yahoo.com-maybe We can end this Travesty that has been happening for over 30yrs!!!

Comment by Amanda — December 1, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

Amanda, and everyone… you’re welcome to join the message board forum for feedback on your case.

Comment by Linda Martin — December 1, 2010 @ 4:18 pm

CPS, is so corrupt! I filed a comlpaint with a network and was told are you sure you want to file a comlaint? CPS will consider me noncomplient and aggresive and will keep your child longer. So basically as parents we have no rights and CPS will bully parents! Cps might as well be compared to Natzis!

Comment by kato — December 19, 2010 @ 8:26 am

Kato, you’re right. There’s always a risk that when you fight CPS the caseworkers will dig in their heels and retaliate any way they can. There’s absolutely no guarantees. But I do believe that going to court prepared with legal documents that express your side of the case will be a great help in almost all cases.

Comment by Linda Martin — December 19, 2010 @ 1:07 pm

My Daughter was taken away from me 2 years ago because a 36 yr old man sneaked into my house and tried to sexually assault my daughter and her friend, Both age 15 at the time. my daughters Social worker always told the judge she was doing so much better in foster care. I checked with the new school and found this to be Terribly wrong. The social worker also told the judge I was verbally abusing my daughter as she jumped out of the vehicle as I was taking her back to foster care. The judge scolded me for something that did not happen. After court that day I was talking to the social worker,outside of the courtroom. she called the sheriffs office and told them I was following her around and pointing my finger at her as she told me to get away from her. There is video tape as well as statements and affidavits that prove otherwise. I spent 42 days in jail and although I was eligible for Huber work release, the Judge was on vacation and couldn’t sign the order. I lost my job. It was a good job and other than being in jail I never missed a day of work and had a great track record at work. It’s funny that I can get a great reference from people I work with or others in the community but a social worker can persuade the police and the judge to believe different. (The social Worker is a professional and that word, whether damaging or not is what the tax payers are getting. Do we really need this kind of help in our communities?, At taxpayer expense? Please let me know how I can stop this from happening to anyone else!

Comment by Barry J. Thorud — February 8, 2011 @ 9:37 am

Barry, you could start by writing a letter to your county personnel department regarding your lying social worker.

Here are Seven Ways to Fight CPS… hope this helps!

Comment by Linda Martin — February 8, 2011 @ 1:14 pm

I had been having bad stomach pains when I finally went to to my family doctor who sent me to another doctor after finding a lump. The doctor let my husband and I know that everything was alright and sent us home. Two weeks later we ended up in the emergency room with stage 4 cancer. With no real friends or family nearby to help us through this we went to all chemo sessions with the kids. It was already hard being strong knowing you might not make it. We had no choice but to pretend things were ok with the kids. When we saved enough money to move near my father and close to the hospitals for help it seemed perfect at the time. We enroled our 3 children in school who made friends pretty quickly. My husband and I always had a rule that if the kids were to stay over a friends house we had to meet the parents first. So we met our first parents a few months in. At first it started out good and then things got weird . I ended up in the hospital once again with another blood transfusion when I found out that my baby girls had been molested by these people who pretended to be friends. We had a hard time with everything that was going on getting past all these things. When things couldn’t get worse Cps stepped into the picture and took our kids from us. As if we hadn’t been through enough and then they came up with all these lies and twisted everything around yet making our lives that much worse.

Comment by melissa — February 13, 2011 @ 4:42 pm

C.P.S. HAS BEEN COMPLETLY DESTROYED BY THE GOLDEN CHILD AND BY ALLAH. MAY THE GOD OF PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL. GOD NEVER FORGETS HIS PEOPLE

Comment by lerenzo paler — February 25, 2011 @ 8:08 am

I’m a grand parant my grand son has been with me for 7 months and my daughters boyfriend had a dirty drug test,and thay came and took him from me like I did something wrong my wife and I are so heart broken.I set up too 2 or 3 crying thinking about what did I do or my wife do and for the life of me I can’t think of anything

Comment by shaffer — April 18, 2011 @ 11:38 pm

Yes, Shaffer, that is how they operate. There’s no justice or reason in it. They’re in it for the money. You have kinship care rights. Request an administrative hearing. Read your state’s social service regulations.

Comment by Linda Martin — April 19, 2011 @ 11:45 am

Nearly 2 mnths ago my 5 mnth old daughter daughter died in her crib. I walked in the room started to give her cpr and called 911. Cps came and took my 2 year old daughter. Saying that it was just routine when theres a childs death. They placed her with my EX inlaws and thats where she still is today. The medical examiner and other doctors said that reason for death was SIDS. But cps still isnt giving my daughter back. I want my Baby back. Im going to get a lawyer and get her back. I just wanted to tell you all. so i can get back on later and update everyone on how its going. GOD BLESS you all loving parents get your babies back. R.I.P Audrina

Comment by Ashley — May 4, 2011 @ 6:24 am

Ok so if we don’t have money for a lawyer WHAT DO ME DO, sit there and watch are kids be sold by CPS
mothers worry about their kids crossing the street, talking to strangers, petting stray cats, getting good grades …we shouldn’t have to worry about un qualified 24 year old Child Protective Services work on a power trip coming in and steeling are kids. that is what going on

Comment by Helen — May 8, 2011 @ 11:03 am

.I want to know if we have the right to say: no you cannot come in my home. I want to know if we can demand that they show us proof that they are qualified. I want them to show me a degree. That covers child development and child mental health… so on because this is a hirable experience for these kids.

Comment by Helen — May 8, 2011 @ 11:23 am

I want to know what we can do to change the law. If we are not charged with a crime we cannot get a pointed lawyer and they can just take are kids away from use. I need a lawyer. That knows Texas Child Protective Services LAW. I CAN NOT PAY I HAVE NO MONEY. It is to late the Judge APROVED adoption. I want to appeal this is a night-mere

Comment by Helen — May 8, 2011 @ 11:45 am

Helen, you must file a notice of appeal quickly, within a week or two of the TPR decision. If the adoption already went through it is probably too late. I’m sorry…

Comment by Linda Martin — May 8, 2011 @ 2:23 pm

liker violated procedures,linda, if the social worker, how can I stop the children from being adopyed out, and if they have adopted, is it an illegal adoption, and what can I do? Im in california needing a arizona lawyer. The lawyer I sent all my info to, said hes not doing that type of lawyer cases any more.

Comment by deb gabe — May 8, 2011 @ 3:43 pm

Linda, I havent known how to write to you as was very difficult to find this spot how I got here before.I gave up but pain so great of loosing granddaughter.Arizona social worker lied said we had no rights. I talked breifly to woman attorney in az. who turned from social worker attorney.She said sounds like the violated welfare procedure by not asking if the grandparents would take children.The mother of childrens parents had the children for almost a year in california.yet welfare in arizona never considered them. Grandpa didnt know how to procede.crying. These people wants to help serious trauma, me included. Mother wont ans phone in az. grandpa cant bear to talk .Could you please give me some way to talk to you linda. Every sunday couldnt get letter to you. computer broken, cant work it to get letter in time,ect.hard to fight alone.I have met a person yesterday say they pestered welfare to death. Gave me confidence to write you short letter to you.do you h ave a message phone so dont have to wait week after week.? I cant always work crappy lab top. Library in small town here a mess, law library blocks on computer couldnt view all of your web site here.The violation of procedures are as follows. Possitively took baby out of hospital illeagly.gave to dad.who married some one else. mother stupid court attorney said this on record, but no one did nothing The other children,3 more, one my only grandaughter,they had already srarted adoption procedings, even though kids flipping out there. Mother some how got kids for year and a half at the brother of my grandaughters aunt. She let me go out wiyh her and one brother and her 3 daughters to dinner where I met my grandaughter for first time. I was so happy. Shes 6yrs. and mother moved and told welfare a different man waqs the dad.so welfare gave this mother with 4 children welfare 3yrs with out even checking the dad she named was not real father.I went to child support services in ca. where little girl was born and found a year or more records on this guy who was really pissed as I found him.Welfare never even bothered to check. Sept of 2009 they found out. made my son take paternity test,he had to go to oregon to do it. they said your the dad I was so happy. They tryed to cover up hearing. my kid called goveners office or some one. hearing put off, as it was christmas. he had no way to get to az. I helped him through two phone hearings,they couldnt seem to realize he didnt live there.April 7 hearing cut off his rights, court said child abandonment. I filed motion. Afterwords is when the aunt let me see child. I told my sons attorney he said irealivent. They threw me out of court. My son went home to nothern Ca. I stayed till I saw my little grandaughted. She kissed my hand, and wanted to sit with me. kids in car all going to dinner. The happyest time of my life.It ended when mother on visit gave my grandaughter a picture of her dad. The new foster mother, whom they were getting used to on weekends, flipped, found out I was visiting, my visits got cut off. nomore grandaughter. I had to leave az.no place to stay.Welfare had taken my child in ca. for being homeless 25yrs ago. no abuse, no drugs or alchohol. never gut back because foster parents illegally pulled strings. Theyer family was assistant da. what can I do with this? So if arizona finds this , any involvement what so ever, no kid. Im not giving up. Can we, the grandparents sue welfare for 5 violated procedures, and what do I file to stop adoption?Each child has different dad, and my grandaughter is Indian but have to prove through ancestry., SOMEHOW. Please tell me how to talk to you, or person, computer difficult. This is God and prayers who made this work.Thankyou Linda

Comment by deb gabe — May 8, 2011 @ 4:53 pm

Deb, if parental rights are terminated and a notice of appeal wasn’t filed, then it is usually too late to stop an adoption. Of course I don’t know your case, and only a lawyer could advise. I don’t give out my phone number and don’t work on individual cases. We do have a message board here for people needing feedback on their cases.

Yes, you can sue AZ CPS for violation of laws, but you’ll have to find the right lawyer to do it, and I’m not acquainted with any lawyers there.

Try these:
1. http://www.nrglaw.net/
2. Joseph Collins 602-788-7227
3. D.Tyler Francis http://www.yourbestdefense.com/
4. http://www.lougeelaw.com/

Comment by Linda Martin — May 9, 2011 @ 7:11 am

Struggling just like most of you out there to get my two small boys back. they’ve been in custody for over two years now. Lost the Trial to get them back and now have my parental rights terminated for simply being low-income. Could not afford to hire a decent lawyer and had to ask two of my assigned lawyers to resign due to lack of adequate defense. Seems like people are intimidated by the CPS or they are getting some kind of monetary benefit for secretly promoting CPS in their racket to swipe children from innocent families! Hope I can be of some support to other families going thru the same thing I am.

Comment by Mollie — June 5, 2011 @ 12:07 pm

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