My question involves child abuse or neglect in the State of: FL
My husband is the non-custodial parent of his 2 little girls (age 5 and 6). We have recently been notified by his ex wife that DCF has opened an investigation because someone reported that the youngest said that "daddy hit her." This supposedly happened last Monday and shortly there after, a caseworker was said to have come to her house and interviewed the youngest about the incident. Now according to the ex wife, we can't have any contact with the girls at all and no one from DCF has contacted us about anything. The only information we are getting is coming second hand from the ex wife. She says she has given them our address and phone numbers but we are still sitting on pins and needles.We moved to NC on 2/22/11 and all of this is happening after we left the state.
Basically the questions I have are:
How long does DCF have to contact my husband about the investigation?
Shouldn't DCF be the one to tell us that we can't have contact with the girls?considering we have a court ordered visitation and custody agreement...
What should our next steps be?

