My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Ky
Mother moves to KY. from IN. in order to finish up her degree.
Mother agrees to leave children with father in Indiana for one year while she finishes her education.
Seven months into this agreement, mother gets a call from child protective services, telling mother that children have been taken into protective custody, and father has been charged with one count of manufacturing meth with intent to distribute (eventually charged and convicted of dealing in cocaine or other narcotic), and one count of child neglect because one child had to be “decontaminated”.
Mother goes to court, collects the children and takes them to KY. (with the blessings of the presiding judge.)
Father goes to prison. (for about one year)
Father is soon to be released, and will want to visit with his children.
Mother realizes fathers are important, but, during the entire time of his incarceration, he denied any involvement in what happened…(he has a large parcel of land, where it is possible other people could come onto it, and do bad things without others knowing)
Mother absolutely does not believe his story, and now believes that this is probably his way of life.
Mother would like to protect children from drugs and those who use them, but would not want to deny children the right to see their father.
Mother would like to request child support, supervised visitation (by mother, or a family therapist), and random drug tests on father throughout the next two years. Mother is willing to pay for clean drug tests, but if father is dirty, mother would want father to pay for the tests from then on. Mother would also be interested in requesting therapeutic visitation.
Father is scheduled to be released the beginning of Oct.
Mother is well-aware that she picked a winner, but wants to do the best she can for here children from this point forward.
What should mother do?
Oh, and before he went to prison, father was making sounds about trying to get full custody. Father is very manipulative, and makes living with him sound like so much more fun than the mother's house which has rules that must be followed...

