Grandparents

My x mother in law agreed to help me take care of my 2 children while i went to college and got myself together after I left and devorced her son for being abusive and into drugs. I have completed my college and asked for my children back. At the time i gave her part custody because i took her on her word and trust that it was needed for her to have in order to obtain health insurance for my children. It was agreed and signed saying that when i finished college there would be no problem with me taking them home with me as long as it was not while they were in school. She will now not give them back to me. With the agreement about the schooling she has stalled everytime till school started and each summer it fell the same way after 2x a summer passed and a new school year started i still did not have them with me. This time i had no choice but to file in court. I don't no now what to do or where it will lead now that is has been going on for so long. I took her on her word and did not want to have to put my kids through this as it was not suppost to be this way..Does anyone no anything about this. or any advise.

Court is your only option, and you will probably get a court order gaining physical custody of the children. Courts like to place children with the bio parents except where there is clear abuse etc

If it was me, I would explain nicely that she has no chance in court, and in the event that you are forced into this, that when you win custody, it will be a long time before she ever see the children again.

I presume the court order you got gave her physical custody as opposed to just joint ? If there is no where on the agreement that states she has physical custody then just arrive one day and take them, or file an emergency order into court to have the children seized.

The board is full of people who trusted someone and ended up losing their children.

The sad part is that i went thro the law guardian and my lawyer and went to court in one county and won. on the day it was to be signed by court and all was done. She fired her lawyer. Everyone was on my side. She got a new lawyer and hours before the time in court her new lawyer decided that it should be in another county that it was filed in the wrong county since she lives on the line of the county. This new judge scares me. He does not seem like a happy man. Thanks for the vote of goodness. I am right on the edge now. This is just hard. I love my children so much and just want them with me it is driving me crazy.Thanks again so much