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Forbidden2002
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URGENT: My fiancee and I live in Bakersfield California. We are going thru a custody battle with his ex wife for custody of his two children. His daughter lived with us from March of 1999 to September of 2000. On September 21st, we let his ex wife take his daughter to mcdonalds and she never brought her back. There was a open C.P.S investigation on the mothers boyfriend for child molestation on our daughter. Al though now it is closed, our daughter had told them she had made the story up so she could remian living in our home, and she also told the workers that her mother and her mothers boyfriend had beat her and her younger brother with sticks and belts and belt buckles. But every time we try to bring this up in court we get shot down. We even have witnesses who will testify to the fact that the mother would consatanly drop the kids off with them and leave for days at a time. That is actually how we got his daughter in the first place. The mother had dropped both children off with my fiancees mother on a friday. The kids's mother said she would be back later that night. When she didn't show, his mother called us and told us. We came down to Bakersfield that night and stayed with the kids till Monday night. Their mother did not even call or come by untill Monday night. This is when she said we could have Shonell ( their daughter) but we couldn't take their son Ryan. Three days before the mother took shonell, she was served with child support papers. We are trying to prove the mother unfit. The courts hired a probation officer to look in to the case and find where the kids are best suieted. They came back and said that the kids should remain with the mother. But when the mother had our daughter before we got her, she missed more school then she went. When we had her she was tardy one time. But since she is doing good in school now, they say that her school records for the past are erelevent. ( don't mean nothing. But of course the mother is going to keep her in school for now because she knows they are watching) The mother has changed her story four times, since this whole custody battle has started. But no one thinks that this is funny. We need some help on how we can prove her unfit. We love these kids and we know that the best place for them to be is with us for their health and saftey. We have no problem with the mother having visits, but the mother does not want us to see the kids at all. It seems like the courts are siding with her because, she is the mother. Can some one please help us? We don't want to loose the kids they mean every thing to us. No one is willing to help us. The kids even told the probation officer that they did not want to see their father at all. But the probation officer said that it was clear that some one had coached them into what they had said. Please can some one give us some advice on how to prove she is a unfit mother, or any ideas on what we should say or do in court? Please help us. Thanks!