What is the name of your state? Michigan
Long story, my granddaughter was taken from her mother last June, my son,who was the non-custodial parent has been fighting with CPS to gain custody ever since. We were given temp guardianship last August. CPS has had my son take psychological exam, parenting classes and he is now going to counseling with his daughter and his wife(granddaughters step mom) ever since beginning cps has made him have supervised visits, said because he had just won a visitiation hearing from friend of court when child was taken he had not seen her enough, but not for not trying. CPS first stated that if he had psychological (voluntary) he could see his daugher unsupervised, but then said he should take parenting classes( he has completed) still denied, went to friend of court for custody, cps worker lied and told them that my son had abused his daugher, not true, the step father who has same first name had abused all children in home, mother suffers from post partum depression and said she was too tired to do anything about it. friend of court denied custody based on cps workers false statement. cps wanted to terminate rights of all parents, there are three biological fathers and one unknown for five children of mother. then changed their mind since one father was able to gain custody of his child, requested only other three be terminated, bear in mind my son, did nothing to his child, he went to original disposition hearing thinking he would be able to take his daugher home with him. Now cps worker is thinking the step father will get custody of his two biological children,(he was the perpatrater) and mother she is not sure about, cps worker now denies my son any unsupervised and wants his rights terminated because he became unemployed and lost his home, lives with mother in law at this time, but has just started a new job, but cps worker expects him to be able to come up with deposit for new rental home in 30 days. we have asked that we be allowed to continue temp custody until our son can get back on his feet, cps worker says she would have to terminate sons rights,which means we would be barred from seeing him or our other grandchildren,according to her until we adopt our granddaughter. this makes no sense at all. our granddaughter who is 6 loves her dad and has even asked to go and live with him. son has court apppointed atty, do we have any way here in michigan to get the court and cps to allow our son to get custody of his child? This has been going on for nearly a year now. mother has just had her fifth child which was taken by cps at birth, and no visitiation rights for that child now. Can we request that family court allow us to take a guardianship until our son is settled in a new home. Going back with mother would not be good for child and friend of court already found her unfit for one of the children since this started and awarded custody to father,even though he still lives with his parents. has any one else experienced this kind of mess with michigan cps. the counselor my son and granddaughter is seeing thinks the caseworker has confused my son and the step father in some of the court papers because they have the same first name. any help would be appreciated, i am really nervous the next hearing end of july. granddaughter would be devasted if she had to go back with her mother, repeatedly states that if she can't live with daddy she wants to stay with us.
Long story, my granddaughter was taken from her mother last June, my son,who was the non-custodial parent has been fighting with CPS to gain custody ever since. We were given temp guardianship last August. CPS has had my son take psychological exam, parenting classes and he is now going to counseling with his daughter and his wife(granddaughters step mom) ever since beginning cps has made him have supervised visits, said because he had just won a visitiation hearing from friend of court when child was taken he had not seen her enough, but not for not trying. CPS first stated that if he had psychological (voluntary) he could see his daugher unsupervised, but then said he should take parenting classes( he has completed) still denied, went to friend of court for custody, cps worker lied and told them that my son had abused his daugher, not true, the step father who has same first name had abused all children in home, mother suffers from post partum depression and said she was too tired to do anything about it. friend of court denied custody based on cps workers false statement. cps wanted to terminate rights of all parents, there are three biological fathers and one unknown for five children of mother. then changed their mind since one father was able to gain custody of his child, requested only other three be terminated, bear in mind my son, did nothing to his child, he went to original disposition hearing thinking he would be able to take his daugher home with him. Now cps worker is thinking the step father will get custody of his two biological children,(he was the perpatrater) and mother she is not sure about, cps worker now denies my son any unsupervised and wants his rights terminated because he became unemployed and lost his home, lives with mother in law at this time, but has just started a new job, but cps worker expects him to be able to come up with deposit for new rental home in 30 days. we have asked that we be allowed to continue temp custody until our son can get back on his feet, cps worker says she would have to terminate sons rights,which means we would be barred from seeing him or our other grandchildren,according to her until we adopt our granddaughter. this makes no sense at all. our granddaughter who is 6 loves her dad and has even asked to go and live with him. son has court apppointed atty, do we have any way here in michigan to get the court and cps to allow our son to get custody of his child? This has been going on for nearly a year now. mother has just had her fifth child which was taken by cps at birth, and no visitiation rights for that child now. Can we request that family court allow us to take a guardianship until our son is settled in a new home. Going back with mother would not be good for child and friend of court already found her unfit for one of the children since this started and awarded custody to father,even though he still lives with his parents. has any one else experienced this kind of mess with michigan cps. the counselor my son and granddaughter is seeing thinks the caseworker has confused my son and the step father in some of the court papers because they have the same first name. any help would be appreciated, i am really nervous the next hearing end of july. granddaughter would be devasted if she had to go back with her mother, repeatedly states that if she can't live with daddy she wants to stay with us.
