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    Default Getting Custody Back From My Mother

    Hello [] I am [] a single parent of 4 children, and first off I would like to start off with that I am not a drug addict and have never even tried any drugs of any sort, I do not smoke, and I am not an alcoholic. I work full time at Computershare, I have my own place. Now I will begin what is causing me to write to you today, I don’t know where to turn, so I am hoping that your organization can be of some assistance. 3 yrs prior I was going through some hard times, I didn’t have a place to stay so; I went to my family for support, mainly my grandmother. I asked her if she could send my kids to school with her children because her children went to a suburban school and they receive a better education, my children have always attended a suburban school and have never went to a Chicago public school so therefore I felt this would be better for them, I gave my grandmother money for them every week (what she and I agreed upon) for them to stay with her until I could get on my feet. My grandmother with out my knowledge took the kids out of school two weeks before school ended and sent the kids to live with my mother in Wisconsin and this is where the problems aroused, first I didn’t know at first where they were, when my mother needed money she then told me where they were, I visited the kids there, because I had still not got a stable place but I was working and going to school, after I had got a place to stay a 3 bedroom townhouse in Round Lake, Il I went to retrieve my children and was not allowed to by my mother, she didn’t have any rights ,she didn’t have temporary guardianship or anything, so I then had to call Wisconsin police department, I spoke to the supervisor at the police department, he informed me that if I got a letter from the court stating that there was no guardianship, that he would send the police to accompany me which he did, but because she had a child support order that was issued from the state, they did not allow me to get my kids, I don’t even know how she was able to enroll my kids in school because there was never any legal documents to allow her this, the school at one point did not give me any information on my children until my attorney presented them with a letter to take action because they had no rights or unless they came up with a legal document stating that she had guardianship and they couldn’t present this because there was no guardianship. I hired an attorney and we went to court for guardianship, during this time I was to see my kids every weekend and and majority of the summer, my mother did not follow this stipulation which was ordered by the courts, my lawyer filed a motion for contempt because I was still showing up to pick them up for their visit although she wasn’t allowing them to come, the police had to be called and she still would not adhere to the order. We went to court the judge went against me and gave guardianship to my mother even after the guardian light the children attorney recommended they go with me. Now Let me also tell you about my mothers situation and why I don’t understand how they could have given her guardianship, my lawyer wanted to appeal the decision, but I cant afford to pay for it, because he feels the judge didn’t follow the law, I have three little girls and one boy, I was molested by my mothers boyfriend when I was ten years old, my mother said that I was a dog and that I wanted it, I was also legally adopted by my grandmother because of child abuse and neglect, my mother has a criminal record for assault and drugs, she has stabbed my father, my mother lives with a man who does not work and drinks heavily, she has never met any of his family, I don’t know anything about his background my daughter on one of are visits, pulled down my friends jogging pants and I scolded her for it she stated that she does it to my brother and that my mothers boyfriend allows her to do this as well, also in my mothers care my daughter who is now 5 took prescription medicine and had to be rushed to the emergency room where she was an intensive care and I stayed with her the entire time in the hospital until she was allowed to leave. I don’t have any dealings with dcfs, they have never been called on me I have never beaten my children, never left them alone which my mother does while she goes to Chicago. Is there anything that can be done I don’t want the same things that happen to me to happen to my children, I have tried everything I have done all that they have asked me to do and to no avail, please help me.

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