Topic : Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

My 16 year old grandson is now living with my husband and I since April and we need advice to get custody of him.  He does not want to live with his mother anymore because she constantly puts him down and says he will be like his father. He told her, he did not want to live with her and she told him to get out of her house.  He was failing in school because of all the tension he had at home, he pulled his grades up just barely to pass to the next grade.  He has improved his attitude since living with us and he wants to stay with us. Please help me get the necessary legal advice for the State of Florida.

Thank you

YOU are so fortunate to have such blessings from God in your life. I have one son and he had one little girl who just turned 2 years old on June 6th and on June 17th he and his wife voluntarily terminated their parental rights to my precious granddaughter. They were pushed into doing it and my daughter-in-law brainwashed by the CPS worker and both of them put down so much and treated so unfairly and made to feel like they did nothing right when it came to caring for their little girl even though she was doing fine at home with them. It is all such a big mess! I couldn't get her becuz the CPS Worker does not like me and her husband is the sheriff of the county and I don't have the money for an attorney to fight to get her.

I called our Senator on friday and then was told to contact the attorney general and talked to that person and then from there it was suggested that I file a formal complaint on that CPS Worker. I am going to do that on monday morning!  Any other suggestions would be much appreciated. I have got to get my granddaughter!  I need prayers. 

On May 22, 2007 my handicap daughter, thru lies and deception was forced into handing over her two children to two Mississippi couples, who have no biological ties to the babies. John & Holy received custody of my granddaughter Kathrine born on 8/29/06 age 8 months cause No. 2007-0409. Chris & Karman received custody of my grandson Johnathan born on 9/11/04 age 32 months cause No. 2007-0459. I asked the court to reverse that decision base on the facts stated in rule 60 of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure. The Petition did not meet the legal requirements for guardianship. The judgment constitutes an informal adoption contrary to law. After finding out my lawyer was incompetent in my eyes I hired another attorney on 10/12/07. Thru the efforts of this attorney I found out that on 1/11/08 John & Holly separated and file for divorce on 2/5/08 cause # 2008-077 and also in cause #2005-0909 the same couple lost their own biological child Caitlin due to illegal drugs. I requested my attorney have the children removed to a safe place till all of this can be handled. He did not do as I requested but instead filed for an extension of time on the cause. I failed to see how this protected the health and wellbeing of my grandchildren so after again requesting he have the children remove to a safe place he also was fired. DHS was called in to investigate this matter on three occasions but they also failed to remove the children to a safe place. The same judge who signed the order to remove Caitlin from her home signed to place my granddaughter in the John & Holly home. I have file for an emergency hearing cause # 2008-0001 & 2008-0002 to ask the judge to place the children in a safe place. The hearing was set for 6/25/08 but the opposing attorney claimed to be sick and put it off till 7/8/08. This attorney was in court on 6/23/08 was did not appear to be sick. I believe that this was a legal ploy to prolong and endanger the health and wellbeing of my grandchildren. I have now placed myself in debt to hire yet a third attorney. The legal system in Jones County, MS and their DHS system have endangered the children. I have not received a detail statement of their billable hrs or a refund for all unused portions of the $7,000.00 I paid the first two attorneys and since I am a school teacher in St. Tammany Parish school system I fail to see why in the year 2008 no one cares about the children. The courts need to follow the systems put in place to protect the children. Through the efforts of my third attorney my handicap, mental retardation daughter has her parental rights back because declared incompetent to have signed the papers due to her mental retardation granddaughter Kathrine but the judge left my grandson in the hands of Chris & Karman, people who have no biology ties to him. He and the family are missing out on what I believe is his right to be with his mothers and bilogylically family. I am desperately asking for emergency help in this matter.