If you’ve just found out you’re being investigated by child protective services social workers, see What To Do If Child Protective Services Social Workers Are Investigating You and An Attorney’s Advice on Protecting Your Family by Gathering Data.

If you have any dealings at all with child protective services, see: Your Case Notebook: It It Up To Date?

If you’re facing court dates and need to know how to put yourself in a better position when you get there, see Who Will Prepare Your Case? and the Legal Document Library.

If your child protective services caseworkers are asking you to do things that are not court ordered, or not following state social services regulations, or bending the laws, or not honoring Kinship Care rights, see: Filing for a State Administrative Hearing.

If you’ve got a court appointed attorney who is not helping you win your child protective services case, see How to Make Your Court Appointed Attorney Work for YOU.

If you’re looking for an attorney, sign in here: Lawyer Requests. Also see our list of attorneys: Lawyers Who Take Child Protective Services Defense Cases.

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This Fight CPS Legal Document & Information Library has been created within our FightCPS Message Board Forum. In order for the links to work you must be (1) registered, and (2) logged in.

This library contains forms and information on legal procedures. I will add more links as I find them.

Remember:

(1) Do not give CPS any self-incriminatory information on affidavits, declarations, or other legal documents.

(2) All information found at FightCPS is used at your own risk. If possible, consult an attorney for help.

(3) These are just sample documents and links to information. You will need to draft your own documents using whatever details are pertinent to your case.

(4) There’s a lot more information on the message board than I’ve linked to on this page. You can start a search for more legal document information here: Alphabetical Index.

(5) If we don’t have what you need, maybe we can find it, or draft a sample for you. The message board is the place to ask for help finding a legal document sample. You can also request feedback on your case.

Affidavits – Declarations

Sample Affidavit

Objections and Corrections to the Report of the Social Worker

Appeals – Declarations

Sample Appellant Brief

Briefs

Appellant Brief – Sample

Legal Briefs in Child Welfare

Civil Rights

Petition For Removal of Case to Federal Court

Indian Child Welfare Act

ICWA is a disaster for many families

Class Action Lawsuits

Class Action Lawsuits – News and Links to Sample Documents

Judicial Opinions

How To Read A Judicial Opinion

Appeal re: Motion to File a Belated Appeal After TPR

Non-custodial parents’ rights

The county is not immune from federal civil rights lawsuits

Judicial Opinions on Appeals From Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) Hearings

What constitutes ‘Imminent Danger’?

Kinship Care

How to Get Grandparent Custody

Lawyers

The Agenda of Court Appointed Attorneys

Motions

Motion Bank

Motion For A New Trial

Motion To Strike

Sample Court Form For Motions

Motion to Suppress Anticipated Hearsay Testimony

Notice of Intent to Sue

Notice of Intent to Sue

Objections

Essential Objections Checklist

Request for Case File

Request for Production of Documents

Suing – False Reports

Suing Those Who Make False Reports to CPS

Writ of Habeus Corpus

How to Write a Writ of Habeus Corpus

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In Yreka California a foster child, Craig Britton, is dead. He was almost two years old. He had visitation with his family the day before and seemed fine then. His elderly foster parent didn’t check on him for eleven hours after putting him to bed at 9pm. When she went in to see him in the morning, he was dead. His stomach was empty except for some unidentified leaves.

Did he wake up in the middle of the night hungry, and eat a house plant? Nobody seems to know at this point.

Community members are distressed and confused. Why did this child die? Why was he taken from a loving mother? Why were the grandparents refused kinship care of their beloved grandson? Why are some people blaming the young parents because their non-abused child was in foster care?

Would you like to tell them how you feel about this? Go to: Mother, foster mother want answers in death of toddler by Mike Slizewski, published on September 17, 2009 in the Siskiyou Daily News.