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PLEASE HELP, DCFS is wrongly moving toward terminate parental rights. My daughter is mentally disabled and they are using this to their advantage.

Please need an attorney in Arkansas. We are broke. Can make payments, hell you can put a lein on my home. I don’t care just help us. Have just received documents today.

Comment by Iris — October 16, 2009 @ 2:56 pm

In July 2007, I accidentally dropped my then 2mo old on the carpet (he fell out of his bouncy chair) and sustained a skull fracture. I called my husband immediately (very upset) and he came rushing back home to take care of my son and me. He waited for 2hrs before returning to work and informed me to let him know if any changes arose. None did and we didn’t think anything else about it til approx 3 days later when we found a bump on our son’s head. We rushed him to ER and gave our stories but because they differed (I mentioned the fall but my husband mentioned an incident with the bottle that happened that evening) CPS was called in and after three days in the hospital, they took our son into their custody. My husband is aware that I have had ten (10) different cases with my now two adult (and one deceased) children. But my children have all stayed in my custody except my oldest child who was living in TX with my mother when she decided she didn’t want him any longer and put him into TX custody. Anyhow, the PHX police dept did their investigation into what happened even doing a polygraph on me and closed the case as an accident (no abuse!) but still CPS is wanting to sever MY parental rights. They have forced my husband and I to divorce in order to keep our son from being adopted out. My husband will retain custody but they don’t want me in his life at all. My now 2y old is upset bec he says “I’m leaving him!” and for this he’s “mad at me!” My husband and I have done all the services offered to us from “dropping UA’s” to psychological and psychiatric evaluations and individual and marriage counselings. We have supervised visits (were 6 hrs together but now that we’re separated, I have three hours and he as 7hrs broken 2hrs during week and 5 hrs on weekends). My husband’s visits are now 1/2 unsupervised now, too! They say my son and I aren’t bonded and never will (per the experts!) and that I will never be able to parent a child. I have raised two children (one to adult hood and she is now a college student). The other committed suicide in January 2008 after murdering his girlfriend (I tried to get assistance for him from CPS, police and his probation officer but no one would assist – this is another incident that I want to find assistance for). Please help me. I want my son back. It was an accident that he fell I would never hurt my baby! I’m not saying I’m perfect

Comment by Lucile — December 15, 2009 @ 3:10 pm

Lucile, I’m so sorry… you’re going through so many traumas! Please read as much as you can on the site, and do whatever you can to produce legal documents and documentary evidence in your favor for the next court hearing. You can get more feedback on your case on our message board.

Comment by LindaJoMartin — December 15, 2009 @ 5:56 pm

I fought cps for 2 1/2 years and I won and spent 8 days in a jury trial and won. It took alot of hard work and I can tell you I never once wanted to give up. If you are truely serious about your life and your child/childrens life, never give up. Fight until the end. You can overcome CPS..

Comment by Cheryl Petrella — December 19, 2009 @ 1:22 pm

hi, im 17 and my family is being watched by cps. i was having a hard time a few months ago and i guess a few people noticed and made some calls. i met my social worker once, when she came to my school and pulled me out of one of my classes and talked to me for about an hour or more. later when i got home, she pulled in right after my mom. my dad wasnt home, but me my mom and my sister were. she had me and my mom go to the back of the house while she interviewed my sister, and then she sent my sister back and did the same with my mom. it was all so confusing but somehow something came up that caused her to make my mom file a report against my own grandfather for sexual abuse, and she also schedualed an interview with my dad at the cps office. im still at my own home, but im scared that shell find something to take me and my sister away. she said that they would be watching us for the next 6 months, and at the end of the 6 months it will be decided if we can stay, or if my mom has to find a job and leave my dad, or if we will be placed in a group home. i dont get along with my dad, and maybe thats an understatement, but im not being abused or anything like that. she is also requiring me to go to therapy, continue councelling at my school, on top of visiting a phychiatrist. i havent seen her or heard from her since then, and i was hoping that maybe she wasnt that serious about it and was going to pretty much leave us alone. but i found out yesterday that she has somehow been able to find my facebook and myspace account, and has been following everything i say and do on both. i always set my pages to private, and i only allow close friends and family on them because i dont want random people invading my personal life. then yesterday my mom gets a call and shes told that she has to take me in for more councelling because of a few posts where i said maybe i was sad, angry, or something along those lines that she tied to my depression. and i have one or two posts saying that i wasnt sleeping well, and now shes making my mom take me to the doctor for that and ones saying im home sick. we cant afford many more appointments, but we are afraid that if we stop she will use that against my parents. we cant afford for a doctors visit every time i sneeze or have a headache. i just want to be able to use these pages to talk with friends, tell them whats going on in my life, keep up with what is going on in theirs, but if i cant do that without her pouncing on every little thing i might just have to stop using them. its the only way my friends get in touch with me anymore, and i dont want to lose that. is she allowed to do this? how far does the right to privacy extend in this situation? im trying to keep my mouth shut now, but im scared that she will see that as something else suspicious and turn that against us. i turn 18 in october, and i dont want to spend the rest of my time as a legal minor being watched like this or in a group home or with all this drama, and i really dont want to spend it being afraid to talk to my friends. my sister has it worse, she is 14 and will be watched by them still after im an adult, and she is completely terrified. i dont want to be the cause of her going into foster care when she is happy where she is right now. nobody will listen to me, they all say its beyond me im a minor ill get it someday, but honestly while i dont know everything i know enough to know that this situation shouldnt be happening, and i really need help figuring it out. i gueess that is part of the not knowing anything lol. can you help me out? i would be really grateful…. its a big mess.

Comment by A. M. — January 20, 2010 @ 9:24 am

A.M. – this social worker is stalking you. It may be difficult but I’d delete everyone from Facebook and MySpace except people you know personally. Possibly she somehow got you to approve her account without realizing it was her. After deleting everyone, log out and see what your accounts look like to people who are not your friend connections. Make sure there’s nothing there that anyone can see.

Thank you for being so considerate to your younger sister, who will still have to be concerned about them for years to come. Remember this when you’re older and especially when you’re a mother… because too many young people with babies don’t realize that social workers can create a mountain from a molehill to harass families and take children away.

If your sister wasn’t at stake, I’d say, why not just tell this person to stop stalking you? But since you do have a younger sister perhaps it is better not to rock the boat. From the way this person is stalking you and harassing your family, it is possible she’s quite unstable, and not someone you would want to insult while she’s in a position of power. In the future be very careful about what you say to any professionals, or anywhere online.

Good luck to you!

Comment by LindaJoMartin — January 20, 2010 @ 11:14 pm

I AM DISABLED AND A SINGLE MOM ME AND MY 22 YR OLD SON GOT INTO A FIGHT. HE WANTED TO GET ME HELP. I GOT ARRESTED FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE JUDGE ORDERED ME TO REHAB. I DIDNT MIND GETTING OFF THE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS BUT THEY TOOK MY CHIKD AWAY FROM ME MY SISTER HAS HER AND NOW AFTER I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING THEY TOLD ME TO DO EXCEPT I LIKE 8 CLASSES BEING DONE. MY SISTER WANT TO GIVE HER UP AND THEY WILL NOT LET ME HAVE HER. THEY SAID I HAD TO WAIT 3 MORE MONTHS THAT WAS NOT IN MY PARENTING PLAN. MY SISTER WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE PARENTING CLASSES DCS DIDNT MAKE HER BUT THEY ARE STILL PUNISHING ME MY CHILD IS 34 MONTHS OLD AND I NEED TO BE BONDING WITH HER AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO

Comment by MARQUITTA — January 23, 2010 @ 5:33 am

Marquitta, what exactly does your court ordered service plan say about visitation and custody? There are several things you can do, such as document everything you’ve done to complete the plan, write to your attorney and ask that he take it back to court ASAP. Ask for more visitation if the service plan allows that. For more feedback on your case, post something (such as the answers to these questions) on the message board here at FightCPS. Good luck! We’re on your side!

Comment by LindaJoMartin — January 23, 2010 @ 4:04 pm

Pray for Nicole and Joey Uribe there court date is Feb 8th 2010. They are innocent, and have been FALSELY accused. God bless these wonderful people the Uribes!!!

Comment by Ginger Marie — February 1, 2010 @ 10:15 am

My wife and I handle lots of CPS cases in the Houston, Texas area. We are especially well-equipped to address those cases that have a criminal allegation as well.

Comment by Colin B. Amann — February 1, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

Hi I live in NY Long Island Nassau County, we my wife and I have a daughter who is 12 going on 13 this year, I got a call the othe day from CPS needing to see my daughter due to Excessive Absences from school the school was aware of her problem and still reportrd us I have Dr reciepts that covers most absences but not all they told me she has 30 absences and I only have documtation for 15 the other 15 my wife lost her job along with all the health insurance also this is around the same time the govenor and senator etc… was stating if your child is sick make them stay home due to the swine flu outbreak I dont want to loose my kid she is my life and I will do anything to keep her any help is appreciated I was told by the case worker if I dont provide enought documents they will take it to court please please anyone help.

Comment by Keith — February 3, 2010 @ 4:34 pm

Keith, I responded to this on the guestbook thread.

Comment by LindaJoMartin — February 5, 2010 @ 4:01 am

Please pray for my family. We were at the home stretch in our case, with our older child due home on a set date. They (CPS) dropped something unexpected on me, I got very upset, and now we have to start over. I know that I could and should have handled it differently, but it seems all they ever do is build our hopes and then tear them down when we least expect it. Yes, there is room for me to improve, and I should not have reacted that way, however the way they have conducted this entire case is an abomination. Please, please pray for my children, my husband, and myself. Thank you and God bless.

Comment by Silver Ray — February 5, 2010 @ 9:14 am

Silver Ray, I’m so sorry. I know how much it hurts to have the caseworkers turn against you just when you think the torture may nearly be over. I will put you on my prayer list and will be praying for your family to be reunited!

Comment by LindaJoMartin — February 5, 2010 @ 9:03 pm

I to am going through a terrifing experience with the NC.DSS/APS,
I have contacted news media, I have recorded, “audio & written” untruths,false allagations,and proof of unethical as well as illegal activities going on @ NC.Dept .Of SS/Adult Protective Services,
This Must Be Stopped!! Please Help!

Comment by Jay — March 10, 2010 @ 4:34 am

Please go to YouTube, Type the word,
ohwidow
in the search box,This will bring tears to your eyes!!
DSS Must Be Held Accountable!!

Comment by Jay — March 10, 2010 @ 5:06 am

Jay, a lot of the ideas on this site may help you deal with your APS agency… such as the administrative hearing…

Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 10, 2010 @ 11:29 pm

My two grand-daughters were taken away by a TPR case in Minnesota and rushed into adoption, my daughter and her husband both have disabilities and her husband was going to be placed into foster care , they took my two grand-daughters the same day, it was as if he couldn’t have them my daughter couldn’t This happened Jan 10, 2008 ! We miss the girls so much but didn’t have money to get a attorney, is there a way we can fight this?

Comment by Holly — March 18, 2010 @ 11:17 pm

Holly, if the TPR is finished it is a bit late… unless your daughter has an appeal in progress.

Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 20, 2010 @ 11:55 am

I need help getting my 2 grandchildren out of foster care before they go up for adoption. CPS wont tell me why they removed them from my home except that the mom was an unruly child so it was my fault. Ive proved everything and they still ignore me. They waited for my daughter to turn 18 to kick me off the case tht was nvr worked on. lied to her to set her up to completely fail. i have evidence. they were also abused and CPS covered it Please someone help me I can prove to you I was a wonderful provider and grandma.

Comment by Leticia manani — March 24, 2010 @ 10:33 pm

Leticia, have your daughter’s parental rights been terminated through a TPR hearing? How long have the children been in foster care?

Two thoughts come to mind: (1) a state administrative hearing,
and (2) contact your state legislators.

Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 25, 2010 @ 12:44 pm

please pray for a good friend of mine and that the courts open up his case to find out the truth… You can put the truth in the grave, but it won’t stay there. You can nail it to the cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!
Happy Easter to all. a friend.

Comment by george — April 3, 2010 @ 8:59 am

I too have a nightmare story about CPS and found this web site after entering “how to get justice with a lying CPS worker”…our social worker too has submitted to the court lie after lie about us with absolutely no conscenquences. We don’t lie and don’t appreciate it when people who are paid by our tax dollars are allowed print false things about us to the court and the judge in a court of law….
We have raised our now eight year old grandson for basically most of his life. My daughter was married and her husband tried to kill her. they were divorced and there was a ten year no contact order against the dad with his son. Now after eight years he is back from another state into calif. where he has been able to get custody of his son . We have his baby sister also. we have heard people say people say don’t get involved with CPS. Well after what they have done to us I have to agree. The woman we have is rude, purposely leaves important information that we need to know out, and has told so many lies in her report that she should be held accountable for slander against us. We made a formal complaint to the regional supervisor in S. CA. but not one thing was done. The lies were never cleared up about us. She worked so hard to take the children from us that she finally suceeded on March 1st. Our gr.son was taken by the deadbeat dad to another state. as he put it…”they (us) kept him from me for 8 years and now its their turn”. We did not keep him away from him the law of the state did for attempted murder. But thanks to California’s weak laws that seem to favor the criminal and their rights… we no longer can see him. Do you know what that feels like? It is the worst pain in the world besides losing a child in death. I feel like everything was done wrong to us and who cares ? It goes back to the saying.. ‘ how much justice can you afford?’ In our case, evidently not much. It is not about what is best for the children it is about agendas and getting cases off their desks. CPS is full of liars and they are getting paid for it. It is just the worst experience in my life . We suffer everyday for trying to do what is right.And worst of all a little boy was taken from his Mom, his baby sister, Grandparents who love him more than life. We went to every single court hearing and NEVER were allowed to say one word.All the lawyers talked to each other but not a word to the people who love him and raised him. Justice.. we would love some.

Comment by Grandmother — April 26, 2010 @ 10:28 pm

Grandmother, we’re talking about this on a thread in our message board right now. Please join us there! I would love to see some families get justice. I too was shocked by the lies in court documents. My case was in 1989, more than twenty years ago… and since then I’ve read many other social worker documents, all containing blatant lies. This is a HUGE problem, one we must work together to find solutions for.

Comment by Linda Martin — April 27, 2010 @ 11:10 am

I call them Department of Hell and Human Sacrifice. I won’t discuss the case because it is ongoing but we are fighting to at at least be heard by a judge but a year and a half and he still has not been charged because there is no evidence because it never happened. I no longer believe in the justice system or America for letting this happen to families. What happened to the rules of evidence?

Comment by M — April 29, 2010 @ 12:02 pm

I have been dealing with a special needs teenage daughter’s behavioral issues including drug use , aggressive acts and running away. There are 3 other children in the home whom have suffered in the process. I asked for help many times to have her placed in residential treatment which is what she needs. Allegations were made re all 4 kids and a psychiatrist visit for Dad.
There was no court involvement.
Can they force psychiatrist visit and/or decide which therapists you use for yourself and family?

Comment by Exhausted Single Dad — May 18, 2010 @ 6:10 pm

Exhausted Single Dad, yes, the judge can order psychological evaluations and therapy. That’s standard for a CPS case. If it isn’t court ordered then you don’t have to do it, but if you don’t the caseworkers may take it to court to get the order. If you do go to court and sign a guilty plea of any kind, you give up your right to a trial.

Comment by Linda Martin — May 18, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

I was married or 6.5 years and I was in a very emotinal abusive relationship. It took me a while to make me decision but I know for my children i had to get a divorce. Before the divorce was final my ex already moved in with his girlfriend and she was 6 weeks pregnant. I ended up with joint custody and final decision making authority. I always tried to be the peace maker , so I told my ex if he couldnt pay the court ordered child support due to his situation that i would give him one year time frame to get on his feet. When the year was up I told him I was goning to file the motion because he didnt even try to pay 5 dollars in helping me with the children. That is when my worst nightmare happen. On Dec 5 2009 I filed the motion. Child support enforcement suspened his license. When he found out he became enraged. He told me he was going to get back at me.. Sure enough two weeks later DCF shows u to my door, saying that my ex stated that i was leaving the child home alone, that i was bipolar. The DCF found unsubstationed evidence of it and told him. So he went to the extreme!! On Jan 2010 he picked up my children for the weekend visitation, he was suppose to be there by 9 am and showed up at 8 pm. Around 1230 that night DCF and two polices officer show up at my door stating I beat my daughter with a belt and that they will not be returned. I was arrested and charged with risk of injury and assault. I told them i dont hit my children but they said well your daughter said you did and she is afraid to come home. I was shocked and confused. All I could think of was how did this happen? I didnt understand. Talking with DCF i found out my ex had also said i was on drugs, going to bars picking up not only men but women too..The list goes on. At this point I have supervisored visit with my children 4 hours on the weekend..Guess who the court has supervising the visis? MY EX!! I tried calling different places to supervisor the visit as a netural person but DCF wont help. As he goes back to DCF stating the visits are going bad, to the point he said i pushed my daughter down the escalator in one of the visit!! Which is not true. Thank God I picked the visit to be in the mall because i felt if he is going to be lying about the visit the mall has security. Which has now also been used against me. I tried to have a pychologist call DCF to set an appointment to evaluate the children but nothing. Now he filed for sole custody because he believes its in the best interest of the children because they fell to neglect and abuse..When DCF checked the childrens doctors and school they all stated they have no concern of the children being in my care or never seen signs of neglect.I dont know what to do..My children cry that they want to come home and he told DCF im manipulation the children into wanting to go back home. I have done everything DCF has told me to do from a mental health evaluation-they found me with no mental health problems,Drug test-negative, and attended a parenting class-final test passed with 100. At this point I’m trying to be so focused and strong for my babies but I dont know what else I can do..He has alienated me from the children, also my family and my friends..

Comment by Young Mother — May 24, 2010 @ 8:51 pm

I need advise on how to shed doubt on CPS in jackson county family court. I have court wense. and i am in desperate need to get my 2 and 3 yr old back. All they have on me or against me are false allegations they keep passing off as true

Comment by Tena — June 20, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

My older son had his first son taken from him and his girlfriend due to not having electricity and his home being dirt. The Judge who is Gay awarded him, my Grandson to two Male Homosexuals who we the family believe are abusing him. He was 4 months when he was kidnapped by the system and my son was homeless after losing his home and we just found out , finally found him almost 6 months later. The social workers are trying to keep my grandson away from his mother, father, and family. They are trying to strip away his identity and the Gay Judge is allowing them to do so. My sisters home was approved for him on Friday June 25, the Gay Judge Zeke Ziedler refused to return my Grandson to his family, presumably because the Social worker Debra Marsh did not hand in the home approval. My Grandson has a Father, Grandfather, Aunts and Uncles and me, his Grandmother and a rich and colorful heredity that this Gay Judge is trying to strip him from , Worst than slavery is the legalized Crimes committed by our Government that expects our sons and daughters to die fighting for Them, as our family has done in the past. We the PEOPLE NEED TO STAND UP TO THIER TIRANY AND INJUSTICE .
Please help me stop this rampant injustice and reverse discrimination by the Gay community.My grandson has the right to be with his family who loves him and the right to choose to be the Male he was born as…without abuse by two Homosexuals

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Comment by CYNTHIA — June 26, 2010 @ 1:47 pm

Hi linda thank you 4 doing what everyone needs to be doing! Grateful in pa

Comment by (poppy) jay — July 12, 2010 @ 10:55 pm

cps of ny was called during the birth of my first and only daughter. this was due to two reasons. first, my husband was being a bit controlling and dificult in the hospital and two, my OB was worried about my mental state. we were living in nj at the time (hospital was in ny) so case in ny was left open (we never signed it over) and nj closed it (after three months of questioning)
now ny cps has made the decision that I am an insufficient guardian.
nj called my doctor and I was cleared. but ny did not want to know of my doctor. they were concerned most because I told them about my emotionally abusive husband and then went back to him (thus the final judgement of insufficient guardianship) they said my indecisiveness caused it.
now my husband and I have been together for almost two years raising child. will i ever get decision overturned while staying with Him? is it possible to be without him and have it overturned?

Comment by sharon — July 30, 2010 @ 1:44 am

Sharon, I don’t know. Every case is different. You must choose your course of action, then work on defending yourself in court. It either works or it doesn’t. Of course I hope you’ll be reunited with your child, but there are no guarantees.

Comment by Linda Martin — July 31, 2010 @ 6:16 pm

my 16 year old decided he wanted to live in a foster home so he could be independent and make his own decisions, CPS now refers to him as the monster child and is moving to make him a ward of the state and place him in a group home, he is my youngest and he has emotional problems, I just pray that God can touch his mind and heal his heart and mend this tragedy in my life, I am living in hell.

Comment by Jamies Mommy — August 3, 2010 @ 4:56 am

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