Post here if you need a CPS defense lawyer - June 2009

People who need CPS defense lawyers can post their information here…

If you post an email address to be contacted, please post it in this format:
yourname - at - yourdomain.com . . . this will prevent spammers from stealing your email address and innundating you with unwanted emails.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

<b>Please read before posting:</b>

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
<a href=”http://fightcps.com/2007/08/20/make-your-court-appointed-attorney-work-for-you/” title=”Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU”>Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU</a>

Check out this page:
<a href=”http://fightcps.com/2007/08/10/lawyers-who-take-cps-defense-cases/” title=”Lawyers who take CPS defense cases”>Lawyers who take CPS defense cases</a> - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

[Note: sorry these pages are late this month; I need to automate them like I did last year . . .]

People who need CPS defense lawyers <s>can post their information here</s>…

Please post on the most recent page of <a href=”http://fightcps.com/cps/lawyers-needed/”>lawyer requests</a>.

If you post an email address to be contacted, please post it in this format:
yourname - at - yourdomain.com . . . this will prevent spammers from stealing your email address and innundating you with unwanted emails.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

Please read before posting:

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU

Check out this page:
Lawyers who take CPS defense cases - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

People who need CPS defense lawyers can post their information here…

Please post on the most recent page of lawyer requests.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

Please read before posting:

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU

Check out this page:
Lawyers who take CPS defense cases - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

Nadya Suleman must have a lot going for herself, and her many children. She’s managed to buy a home and hire an attorney, and appear on the Dr. Phil Show where she was offered free nursing care by an organization that calls themselves “Angels in Waiting”.

Unfortunately these “Angels” appear to have a problem - with calling CPS. So far there have been two calls. First their attorney, Gloria Allred, called CPS because Suleman didn’t immediately respond to the “Angels in Waiting” offer of free nursing service. According to the article, Octuplets mom fires four nurses helping for free, Allred threatened “that Suleman’s children could end up in foster care if she didn’t have proper help.”

You KNOW what I think of this lawyer!

But then after the nursing service began, one of the nurses apparently called CPS because in her opinion, there were too many people at the Suleman house. I doubt there’s any laws about how many people are allowed in a house with babies, but this nurse must think her subjective opinion is gold and that Nadya should not have company. How unreasonable can you get?

Congratulations to Nadya Suleman, who took decisive action to get rid of the rat and her fellow “Angels in Waiting”. Nadya looks like a lovely person and her babies are precious — you can see them on the Nadya Suleman Family Website. You can learn more about her on Wikipedia: Nadya Suleman. I admire and respect what this young woman has done in deciding to have children on her own, and in finding ways to make this financially possible. I especially admire that, rather than cowering in fear, she tossed out the bad apples who thought calling CPS was an option.

Just as any American, Nadya has the right to raise her children as she sees fit.

California residents:

I received this in email this morning, and reviewed the letter. You may be able to help parents undergoing termination of parental rights hearings:

If you are a California resident, please email me at:
aleo966 at yahoo.com

A Petition for Review is being sent to the CA Supreme Court. This is part of a legal process and therefore they are required to read it. It is not an online petition. If they grant this review there could be new case law that will help anyone in dependency proceedings in California or anyone who enters it in the future.

You will be asked to sign a letter which I will email to you. You must provide your name and address below the signature. The letter will be mailed to the CA Supreme Court and 5 copies will go to: the Appeals court, the superior court, county counsel, and others.

This letter must be signed and mailed in the next 30 days or so. The sooner you respond to me the better. I cannot post this letter online because I don’t want just anyone to send it or rewrite it. That could cause more harm than good.

So please email me ASAP and I will forward you the letter.

Thanks,
aleo966 at yahoo.com

This law professor and a police officer will tell you everything you need to know about talking to the police. Good information… you never know when you might need it.

People who need CPS defense lawyers can post their information here…

Please post on the most recent page of lawyer requests.

If you post an email address to be contacted, please post it in this format:
yourname - at - yourdomain.com . . . this will prevent spammers from stealing your email address and innundating you with unwanted emails.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

Please read before posting:

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU

Check out this page:
Lawyers who take CPS defense cases - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

The UN Treaty on Children’s Rights seems to be designed to destroy parental rights. According to Michael Farris, chairman/lawyer of HSLDA, the Home School Legal Defense Association, the Obama administration may seal our fate by accepting this treaty, giving more rights to children than to parents. When all parental decisions are subject to being reviewed by the state, we may be prevented from homeschooling, training our children in our religion of choice, or discipline. I can already imagine kids (especially teenagers) using this treaty to complain about being grounded or otherwise disciplined.

HSLDA is a Christian homeschooling organization. Though I’ve never been a Christian, HSLDA won a place in my heart for pursuing limitations on CPS investigators’ actions, forcing them to honor our 4th Amendment rights. HSLDA also recommends and pursues independent homeschooling rights which are vital to the well-being of the homeschooling movement, because independent homeschooling allows children to learn in freedom rather than be molded into conformity by state government school laws. Conformity destroys initiative, innovation, and imagination.

This treaty has already been accepted by every country in the UN except the United States and Somalia.

Michael Farris is also the president of ParentalRights.Org, where an article lists Twenty Things You Need To Know about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC or simply, CRC.)

Source: The New World Disorder: United Nations’ threat: No more parental rights; Expert: Pact would ban spankings, homeschooling if children object, by Chelsea Schilling, published on February 5, 2009 by World Net Daily.

People who need CPS defense lawyers can post their information here…

Please post on the most recent page of lawyer requests.

If you post an email address to be contacted, please post it in this format:
yourname - at - yourdomain.com . . . this will prevent spammers from stealing your email address and innundating you with unwanted emails.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

Please read before posting:

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU

Check out this page:
Lawyers who take CPS defense cases - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

People who need CPS defense lawyers can post their information here…

Please post on the most recent page of lawyer requests.

If you post an email address to be contacted, please post it in this format:
yourname - at - yourdomain.com . . . this will prevent spammers from stealing your email address and innundating you with unwanted emails.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

Please read before posting:

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU

Check out this page:
Lawyers who take CPS defense cases - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

I know several of you have important petitions out there now and I hope you’ll mention them (with links) in the comments to this post. Here’s one I found out about in email tonight. This one is from the Wheatons - the couple organizing a class action lawsuit. - ljm

This is the first paragraph of a lengthy statement of facts. Please read and sign the petition: Class Action Lawsuit Against CPS and DPSS / DFS / HRS For Kidnapping Babies To Sell.

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By Greg Smart
San Diego, California

We have formed a non-profit group in San Diego CA

No more Family InJustice

(The name was coined using the first name initials of our combined 4 children that are currently “in the system - Nele, Fale, Ian, Jack)

We are holding a protest rally on December 23rd 2008 at the following location

San Diego Juvenile Court
2851 Meadowlark Dr.
San Diego CA 92123
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

If you could help us get the word out it would be appreciated.

We need numbers to get the media attention required to make a difference. We also ask that people bring signs, we will have fliers and pamphlets to pass out at the event.

Greg Smart
858.568.5576
cpsvictim -at- gmail.com

Originally posted here.

Washington grandparents Doug and AnneMarie Stuth have every right and reason to be caretakers of their three-year-old granddaughter, yet caseworkers at Child Protective Services are making up unreasonable justifications to keep the cute little blonde girl in foster care. They say the Stuth’s aren’t making an effort to support the child’s reunification with her teen mother, the Stuth’s daughter. Yet a KING5 news video report proves they have done everything in their power to help the mother have access to her child.

The Stuths made their case high-profile through going to their state legislators including Senator Pamela Roach, and to the news media. They are fighting the case in court. They are a good example for the many thousands of other grandparents who want custody of their grandchildren who have been placed in foster homes. The denial of kinship care rights to grandparents is one of the worst aspects of current child protective services corruption. CPS agencies want to adopt children out to strangers so they can qualify for federal subsidy bonuses.

Source: Investigators: Grandparents passed over in favor of foster care by Susannah Frame on December 11, 2008, for KING5 News. Be sure to read through all the related content on this article! This is a major exposé!

A word to CPS workers: The word is out… everyone knows how corrupt the CPS agencies are. Come out of your dark offices and admit to the world and to yourselves that you’ve done wrong. Good always triumphs over evil. The love of family overcomes the evil of family destruction. In time you will see this is true.

Yesterday I received an email from someone who had been accused of child abuse in Oregon. It was a former foster parent. I have always placed information from news articles onto this site when it involves abuse of foster children because I want to show that children placed in CPS custody are not necessarily safer than children in their natural homes. In fact I believe it is established that children are worse off in foster homes even when there are serious problems in their natural family homes. (This of course has nothing to do with the rare actual severe physical abuse cases that do require intervention by law enforcement officers.)

The man who wrote to me yesterday was accused of abuse against a foster child four or five years ago. Since then he’s made major changes in his life and now has custody of his children. He objected to having his name on my site and said it was harmful to his children. I am aware that foster parents are as likely to be falsely accused of abuse as are natural parents–perhaps even moreso because they intentionally (stupidly, in my opinion, in their desire to ‘do something nice for children‘) place themselves within the scope of child protection authorities and subject themselves to children who have been harmed and corrupted by the system. Sorry to say some of these children do make false accusations because that’s what they’ve been trained to do by evil systemites.

When I received this man’s email I immediately removed his name from this site. I left the article with the child’s information, but I have no reason to leave criminal accusations against innocent people, and he should not have his name on the internet in this context if he is innocent…. just like 90% of the people on CPS’s evil Central Index lists should not be maligned by being named there, myself included.

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If YOU have found your name on this site, and you are innocent of charges that were brought against you, please email me at the email address found at the bottom of every page. The email link is also at the top of the forum pages. I respond to my emails asking for removal of information. This site is now eight years old and I’ve got a ton of information here - most of which I don’t even remember at this point. If you want your information removed, do what this wise man did - SEND ME THE LINK to the information you want removed. That makes it 100 times easier for me to do a rapid information removal.

I also remove comments people made here that they no longer want on the site - but again, I need the links!!! If you find anything on this site that shouldn’t be posted, you are welcome to contact me about it. Your privacy and well being are important to me.

I strongly encourage parents having CPS troubles to use a fake name or handle when posting here. Also disguise your exact details. This is a public forum.

You all have notebooks, right?

Is your notebook up to date?

A notebook, preferably spiral bound or a legal tablet, is a handy place to keep a running record of everything that happens in your CPS case. The caseworkers are keeping notes on you in the case narratives section of the case file. You should be keeping notes on the caseworkers. You should have a record of every contact that occurs during the course of your CPS case.

What can you put in your case notebook?

How about:

⇒ facts on the case (what really happened)
⇒ notes on every phone call
⇒ notes on every meeting
⇒ notes on every visitation
⇒ contacts with expert witnesses (you NEED them!)
⇒ notes about the court hearings
⇒ notes on anything out of the ordinary that happens
⇒ counseling appointment notes
⇒ notes about the psychological evaluation
⇒ a record of all drug tests and results
⇒ reminders about the date of the next hearing
⇒ visitation notes
⇒ foster parent names and contact information if you have it
⇒ notes on all contacts or attempted contacts with your lawyer
⇒ notes on your daily activities

About this last item - it is helpful to have a running record of where you were and what you were doing at all times in case something happens such as what happened to me during my last CPS court appearance, which was way back in 1990. More than eighteen years ago! I was in court for the six-month hearing and was informed when I got there that my child’s paternal grandmother had accused me of being with her son, which in my case was a bad thing because the case was based on him battering me. I was there to tell the court he was no longer in my life and that my child would be safe with me.

Apparently she claimed that her two youngest children had seen me riding with him on a moped a few days earlier. This was totally untrue but she had the accusers write statements for the court saying they’d seen me with him. The court postponed the hearing for another day and that gave me the opportunity to write a declaration (affidavit) explaining where I’d been at the time the younger sibilings said they’d seen me with their older brother. I also got a supporting declaration from the person I’d actually been with. Fortunately I knew exactly where I’d been at the time, and the court was convinced I was telling the truth.

This is just one example of how an ongoing, frequently updated case notebook could save your family.

This posting is here to remind everyone to keep a case notebook and update it often. If you have any other suggestions about the kinds of things that should or shouldn’t be kept in a case notebook, please add your ideas in the comments section.

This was originally posted here.

By aleo966 at yahoo.com:

I would like to organize a rally similar to the one on Nov 25. I am in Los Angeles. We should target the Appeals courts.

Here are 2 locations I propose for a rally:
Ronald Reagan State Building
300 So. Spring St. 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90013

and

925 N. Spurgeon Street
Santa Ana, California 92701-3724

I need to get feedback regarding who can attend during the month of January and which dates. We should try to rally there daily.

In 2003, most of Albertsons and Vons Employees demonstrated daily for months in front of their local stores and refused to go back to work. They were fighting for higher wages and their pension funds. They were only fighting over money, and not for their children’s lives, and yet they were willing to stand out for hours in the cold and give up their jobs until they got what they wanted. And they did!

I can’t imagine why the people who are complaining all over the internet and on this site are not out there with a sign in front of the court houses, the State Capitol or even the Judicial Council.

We should organize this to attract media attention and do it all over the country.

Anyone interested for Los Angeles and Orange County, please email me at aleo966@yahoo.com. Include the dates in JAN 2009 you can attend and whether LA or OC location and how many of you will be there.

You should make your own banners.
Suggestions are welcome.

I would like to have daily demonstrations from Jan 15 til at least Jan 31. Others should organize their own rallies around the same time.

Complaining on this site will get you nowhere, so pick yourself up and go out and do something!

A ten year old boy in Jacksonville Florida has had his life ruined by a CPS over-reaction to a false allegation. They ripped the boy from his mother, incarcerated him in foster care with foster parent Leticia Rodriguez, and left him to be molested by two teenage boys they’d already been told were abusing children.

The person who made the false allegation went to jail because of it. Unfortunately the Department of Children and Families dragged things out in court and managed to keep the boy away from his mother for four weeks. Time enough for him to be repeatedly abused by the foster parent’s two teenage sons.

Typical CPS social work abuse of children! Even though they KNEW the mother wasn’t guilty they pursued their case to keep a child in foster care and draw on those federal funding streams they love so much.

Does anyone here understand why I’m so angry at legislators for not changing the federal child abuse laws? Don’t legislators realize how many children they are HARMING? I sadly believe they DO know it and don’t bother doing anything to help because of some pressure from higher authorities. Tell me it isn’t so! Tell me American children are more important than that!

The mother intends to sue the state of Florida. I hope a lot of pathetic caseworkers lose their jobs over this, and that the state goes broke if it isn’t already.

Florida DCF spokesman John Harrell wouldn’t talk about the eight year old girl foster child who complained about being molested in that foster home NINE MONTHS before the boy stayed there. In all that time, how many other children have been abused? Quite a few, wouldn’t you think?

Source: Foster Child Sexually Abused in Foster Home by Jackelyn Barnard, published on November 12, 2008 by FirstCoastNews.Com (WJXX and WTLV).

FightCPS has a chatroom that you can use 24/7 to chat with other victims of child welfare laws.

Here’s the link: FightCPS Chatroom

I will be there on Friday evenings at 7pm Pacific Time for an open chat.
I am terrible at remembering to go to the chat! I apologize! I will leave a message on the front of the site any time I’m in the chatroom.

If anyone else would like to lead a chat please comment with your weekly start time, and a topic if you have one.

A Dearborn, Michigan mother, Elena Andron, 32, asked for help from social services when she lost her job. She asked that the state help take care of her quadriplegic nine-year-old son, Johnny Dragomir. Unfortunately Johnny starved to death in the Monroe Foster Home in Detroit; owner Mildred Monroe, a registered nurse and dietician, apparently didn’t feed him enough and he died of malnutrition.

Elena Andron has filed suit against the the foster care home and others, asking $30 million in damages.

Andron stated in her lawsuit that when she became concerned about her son’s health she was denied access to him. When he entered foster care he weighed 80 pounds, and when he died, he weighed only 48 pounds. His school teacher didn’t notice any “red flags” and the foster home still has an active license.

Sources:
Mom sues over 9-year-old’s death in foster care in Wayne County court: $30-million suit claims her son starved by Tammy Stables Battaglia, published on November 5, 2008 in the Detroit Free Press.
Lawsuit: Foster Home Starved Boy, 10, To Death published November 3, 2008 on the ClickOnDetroit website.