You can refuse the hair follicle test and they can keep your children if they have some evidence your children are at risk. Talk to the lawyer...

You will need to talk to the attorney on your Dependency case. An attorney on this site cannot give you an answer to a question like this. An...

You need to file for guardianship with the court. Go to the Superior Court website for Sacramento and look under the probate section. You will...

100% legal custody means you make decisions relating to health, education and welfare - you are correct. If his attorney files something and...

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How can i adopt my sons ex girlfriends son

You should file for guardianship first. The forms are all on line at the Superior Court website. Look under forms and go to Probate. There are...

My daughters fathers parents have temp. custody of my daughter....do i have any rights ? as her mother

You should look at the court orders from the guardianship to see what visitation rights you have at this time. If you have not visited or made an...

My sister kicked her son out of the home after she and her boyfriend beat him. Now he is homeless, and he wants to live with me.

If you were previously approved for placement by CPS - and there are no problems with your home - then the best thing to do is contact CPS and tell...

It would be poor form for the court to allow this to happen. He can set this for trial and you will go to settlement conference where the...

We are grandparents attempting to get permanent custody/adoption of our 2 great grandaughters. How do we go about this?

CPS operates under the California Welfare and Institutions Code and there is a little section in there (section 361.3) that says they MUST consider...

What are consequences for a person who has had a restraining order and then a seperate M1 DV charge all within 1 month?

If this is your first criminal offense (you do not say whether the first case was ever criminal) there is a possibility the D.A. would offer you...