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EMERGENCY..Custodial Parent is refusing surgery!!

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CertPsychRN

Junior Member
What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? ALABAMA

Non-Custodial father lives in FL. Custodial mother lives in AL. Father and mother have brought their child(this week) to TN. for treatment of brain tumor on optic nerve. Two specialists agreed that the child needed immediate treatment, but custodial mother refuses treatment. Mother returned to AL. and Father returned to FL. with the 6 yr. old child for his scheduled visitation.

When he returns the child on Sunday night to mother's house in Huntsville, what, if anything, can be done ASAP to return the child to Memphis for treatment? Both physicians in Memphis were privy to the mother's inappropriate behavior and insisted to that mother that her child needed immediate treatment there. Children and Family Services in Huntsville were called several months ago,and this issue was not rectified...this child has had this brain tumor for well over a year...even the dr's. questioned why the mother had not sought help..she is a drug user and alchoholic and has,during this year, endangered the life of this child...mother plowed into a parked Pepsi truck when high, resulting in the child's having emergency surgery to repair a ruptured spleen, ruptured intestines. How much longer will the law ALLOW this child to be overlooked??? What has to happen here? We will do ANYTHING!! Please help!!! Not only does the non-custodial father want immediate treatment for his daughter, but he wants custody, or at the very least, joint custody. He has a college degree, a job, and a home...mother has no job, lives with her parents.

We are DESPERATE!! Can ANYONE help, PLEASE!!????
 


BelizeBreeze

Senior Member
Father needs to file in Alabama for an immediate Emergency Hearing to appoint a guardian ad litum for the child. I would not wait until Monday but would call an attorney NOW!

If this is St. Jude's the doctors there will know how to proceed with the attorney.
 

BelizeBreeze

Senior Member
Further Response:
If you cannot contact your husband's attorney in Alabama you can request an attorney file in Florida since this is a medical emergency. However, any findings may not be valid based on jurisdiction.

Another option would be to find an attorney in florida with connections in Alabama. Many attorneys have references in other jurisdictions.
 

CertPsychRN

Junior Member
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!! What type of lawyer and what would be a reasonable retainer fee? All lawyers are NOT equal..how does one know who they're really getting if they're from out of town? And, how is this done quickly, this being a Friday of a holiday w/e?
 

BelizeBreeze

Senior Member
A family law attorney and at this point, if it's a matter of life and death for the child, I'd pay my soul and screw the fee.
 

BelizeBreeze

Senior Member
Your husband should contact the attorney he had during the divorce. If not available, he needs to IMMEDIATELY contact the Alabama Bar Association for referrals.
 

CertPsychRN

Junior Member
The fee isn't the problem....but we have been jacked around by SOOOOO many lawyers, Depts. of Children and Family Services, private Detectives....do we just go to a phonebook and pick arbitrarily??
 

CertPsychRN

Junior Member
OH MY GOSH!!! I didn't see that!!! Thank you soooo very much and may the Lord bless you richly!!

I'll let you know the outcome!! Your kindness is overwhelming!!!!
 

BelizeBreeze

Senior Member
Please do. And just in case:

The Florida Bar
651 E. Jefferson Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2300
850/561-5600
Fax 850/561-5826
Office hours are from 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday - Friday.

Do NOT respond. TAke care of this IMMEDIATELY.
 

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