Family Law

what is the name of your state? alaska. can the state take a child from a parent for putting them in the middle of a divorce when the parent has been asking the court for help in preventing the child being put in the middle? the division of family and youth services (dfys) did not want custody, the gaurdian ad litem is the one who filed a petition. dfys told the Judge they would send the child home if they were ordered to take custody. the judge ordered dfys to no allow my son to go home. the state has allowed me to keep my other 2 children, who are older than the one they took. do i have any rights??? my son wants to come home.

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Originally posted by tcspillman
what is the name of your state? alaska. can the state take a child from a parent for putting them in the middle of a divorce when the parent has been asking the court for help in preventing the child being put in the middle? the division of family and youth services (dfys) did not want custody, the gaurdian ad litem is the one who filed a petition. dfys told the Judge they would send the child home if they were ordered to take custody. the judge ordered dfys to no allow my son to go home. the state has allowed me to keep my other 2 children, who are older than the one they took. do i have any rights??? my son wants to come home.

My response:

The judge obviously believed that the two of you were placing your young child in emotional danger. You have no "rights" in this regard, until the two of you stop using your child like a ping pong ball. When a judge takes this kind of drastic action to protect a child, it means that the two of you didn't learn from prior "warnings" and that the problems the two of you are experiencing kept boiling over into your child's life, causing that child extreme problems. Extreme measures for extreme circumstances.

IAAL

the state took the child because i had to get a writ of assistance to get my child back from the other parent. my son and the other parent both went to jail the same night. the state tried to black mail me. they told me if i agreed to have my son commited to a long term treatment facility, they would not take custody. i could not agree to commit him. i don't feel my son needs to be committed. the other parent needs to have some kind of criminal charges for his failer to cooperate and for disobaying court orders. my son has been in counseling since 1998. i put him in counseling, not the state. i have tried to prevent any harm to all of my children. i have full legal and physical custody because the judge in our custody case (who has been on our case for 6 yrs) granted the writ of assistance and gave me full custody because i have proven that my ex refusses to communicate with me. i have been trying to put a stop to it. we had a house fire about 8yrs ago, that caused our divorce. my ex has not been the same since. i proved in our custody case that my ex has been emotional abusing all of our children. i could not get that judge to order supervised visitation. now we both have supervised visitation, and i am not allowed to know where my son is.

is there anything i can do?? i have tried, the court system failed me, now they are making my whole family suffer.