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I simply offered advice to the poster. In my own searches online there really isn’t much support or information for people dealing with CPS - helpful information anyone.
Sorry if that’s a problem...
I gave an incredibly brief description of our situation. Our lawyer is aware of all details and works specifically on CHINS cases so I trust her knowledge and advice.
We are in currently in a similar situation where DCS took my husband's child from her mother and he is trying to get placement. Our lawyer advised us that he can file for custody and be awarded it, but until the DCS case is closed then DCS orders trump any other custody orders. So basically...
Here is my previous post. https://forum.freeadvice.com/threads/cps-took-husbands-child-from-mother-advice.655687/page-3#post-3649115. As I said, it's complicated. Husband has not been involved up until recently, but is now trying to do the right thing.
Thank you!
Indiana
It's a complicated case. I'm helping my husband fill out the calculator so he has an idea what he'll owe. Each parent has 2 subsequent children from the child in question. My husband and I are married, so he has no court order for payments, but obviously is part of all of our bills...
When you fill in the child support calculator, it asks about legal responsibility to subsequent children. Does this somehow take into account responsibility for children in a marriage? Obviously there's no legal support order, but there's still a financial responsibility to the children. If so...
Thank you for your opinion. As I said before, he has been in and out of prison. They also have separated numerous times throughout just the time my husband and I have been together (4 years). They were separated at the time DCS took the children. He has confirmed drug use and a recent domestic...
If I grow an attachment to this child and my husband and I divorce, I would get no visitation. She is not my child. She is not his child. No matter how long he’s been around.
If legally he has no rights as stepdad, why should he be allowed visitation? Not to mention the children he has with her mother were taken as well and NOT placed with him. There’s a reason for that.
If he was stable in her life, I would happily promote a relationship. But he has been in and...
Thank you. I will tell my husband to have his PD push to not allow stepdad visitation. I imagine it is only more confusing for her.
I also agree that it would be jumping the gun to file for custody right now. My husband was told by the therapist running the visitation that once they hit 4-6...
Yes, there is. My husband will be calling his PD Monday to try to set up an appointment.
Do you still think that he should bring up the stepdad visitation and try to get that discontinued?
I apologize again as I meant no disrespect. I think I personally have this feeling of "We're not paying him, can we even ask him this?" More from a place of guilt that we can't pay. I also don't have a lot of personal experience with any court system, so I wasn't sure if truly the PD comes to...
No. Absolutely not. I apologize if my comments came across that way. I simply meant that, never having been in this situation before, I'm not sure how involved a public defender gets in these situations.
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