Taking custody of a child

[brokenscout]

PM sent, did it

[Teufelhund]

PM sent, did it

I don't mean to hijack, but I would love to hear some advise from someone who did this successfully. If you don't want to post here, please send me a PM as well.

[10mm-man]

Offer her five grand to get on her feet in exchange for custody of her boy. If she is unfit as you say maybe she will go blow it on booze, partying etc and disappear ... Explain to her that she can see her boy anytime, it's best for him, blah blah blah. Bottom line, whatever it takes to get her to do it. I think in this position, if it is truly in the befit of the boy, do what you have to do.

Courts take a long time and it cost a bundle..... $5k would be the cheap and fast way.... Or what would happen if after you have him for the summer you get an attorney and DSS involved in your home town. Refuse for him to go back home because his welfare is questioned. Take the fight to your backyard were it is harder for her to fight.

[HBARleatherneck]

Offer her five grand to get on her feet in exchange for custody of her boy. If she is unfit as you say maybe she will go blow it on booze, partying etc and disappear ... Explain to her that she can see her boy anytime, it's best for him, blah blah blah. Bottom line, whatever it takes to get her to do it. I think in this position, if it is truly in the befit of the boy, do what you have to do.

Courts take a long time and it cost a bundle..... $5k would be the cheap and fast way.... Or what would happen if after you have him for the summer you get an attorney and DSS involved in your home town. Refuse for him to go back home because his welfare is questioned. Take the fight to your backyard were it is harder for her to fight.

$5 grand? the going rate on facebook (according to the news) is $4000 for two kids. I would try to work a deal.

I would gladly take kids in, in these kinds of situations. But, the way Colorado works, you can get hurt by the biological parents in so many ways.

[mr_dove]

My wife runs a court in rural Colorado and she sees alot of these kinds of cases. Courts always assume that it is in the best interest of the child to stay with their parents unless there is OVERWHELMING evidence to the contrary. Even if the parents are drug addicts or alcoholics the courts will still give them multiple tries to rehabilitate themselves before removing the children permanently. They may put the child in temporary foster care while the parent is in treatment. And this is in cases where the parent has already been arrested for something and it has been proven that they are on drugs or something. Is there parents have not been arrested it will be darn hard to prove that they are unfit parents.