My son is 2 and a half years old at this time. When he was about 6 months old, my son's father and I were going through a troubling time and while I was in a rehabilitation program to improve my life in many aspects. While I was three hours from home getting treatment, I was served papers, stating that my parents were taking me to court to fight for sole custody of my son. I was extremely upset at this time, because I was working hard to better my life for my son and I and here comes the most unexpected, awful news I could ever imagine, from my own parents. I didnt think I was going to be able to attend the court hearing, because I was so far away from home at the time, and I obviously was not allowed to take a day trip back home from where I was being treated, so I thought that there was no question I was going to lose custody of my son at that time. As i understood it, if I wasnt able to make that court hearing my parents wouldve automatically received the sole custody they were hoping for. I was informed by their lawyer (unsure if this was true or not), that if I were unable to make it to the hearing, it would mean to the judge that I was forfeiting my rights as a mother and my parents would have received full custody at that time. Luckily, a counselor was willing to drive me the 3 hours home to appear in court. Because my parents had hired a very expensive lawyer, my son's father's parents sacrificed money they did not have on a lawyer to fight for me and my baby's father. It was one of the worst days of my life, but by the end of hours of everyone arguing and me not knowing what was going on because I wasnt able to afford my own lawyer, therefore I was in the dark throughout the whole hearing, my parents along with my son's father's parents both received temporary custody of my son and attached a long list of personal restrictions put on his Dad and I, in which I was unaware would bring its own kind of hell for us. The restrictions included a few rules such as: Neither his father nor I were ever allowed to be alone with our son without our parents present, and we were also not allowed to drive our son ANYWHERE alone. Ever. And those were just a few. These stipulations made it so my parents basically did have full custody of my son. They may as well have. Well...my son is now 2 and a half years of age. His Father and I have both completely turned our lives around. We both have really good jobs and are living healthy, successful lives. We have let the custody agreements stand and have dealt with the consequences our actions in the past had caused. We are no longer together as a couple, but we are ready to be our son's parents again. We have worked hard and earned it. My question in all of this is how do we go about getting the temporary custody and restrictions evoked at this time? What all needs to be done? Do we need to hire attorneys again? Do we need to go before a judge? Are their particular forms we need to fill out? I have been researching this but I am still very confused as to which route to take and where to start. Also, my other concern was, what if my mother who has been the one behind all of this from the start, fights this request? What would need to happen? Also, if the other three guardians agreed to evoking the temp. custody at this time and my mother was the only one against it, would the three other guardians outweigh her in this? Thank you for your help. I hope to gain some insight one way or another and I am willing to do whatever possible to get my son back.
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