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wellllll...............
Since the mother signed over temporary custody to us, CPS let us keep them. They did do a background check to make sure we are OK. We knew we were. We have no skeletons in our closet. Neither of us has been arrested. No we are not a foster placement, we were getting ready to start the process to be come a foster/adopt placement. We had not taken the classes nor had we even turned in the paperwork. We didn't get a chance this came up before. The Temporary Custody papers are not even worth the notary stamp on them. Although we can take them to the Doctor and place them in school with that paper, that is about it. CPS thought it was in the best interest of the children to come to us instead of placing them in foster care until we could get licensed. It kept them from being moved additional times. If the mother does come to take them and CPS removes them we will have to become foster licensed before we could get them back. So we have opted to get legal custody instead of waiting around to see what the MOM is going to do. We are going to get Legal Custody with Supervised visitation. Now if the mother starts fighting this and we have to go into court and fight for the legal custody we will just go ahead and fight to remove parental rights. I mean gosh, why not? We have spoken with the oldest childs father and he will sign the papers for us to have legal custody. Of course he doesn't want the mother to have her. We have not spoken to the middle childs father yet and the baby's father is unknown. She has a father on her birth certificate but a DNA test has already proven he is not the father. So I don't know what will happen on that. I will know more this afternoon.
Lea
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