growing-n-grace
02-28-2007, 06:08 AM
My ex-girlfriend and I had joint custody of our 6yr old daughter. My ex passed way, Dec. 6. 2005, and I have been going through hell with the grandmother.
My daughter and I have been inseperable since her birth, when her mother decided to move to tx, from CA, I moved from CA the same day to be with my daughter.:)
At the time that my daughter's mother passed, her grandmother and family members, told my daughter's mother's live-in boyfriend, that they were not going to notify me and they were going to keep me in court until my baby turned 16. They did not notify me of her passing until 4 days later, which by then, they had even went so far as to hide my baby for the next 3 days before I even knew where she was.
It was her mother's boyfriend and and her best friend who notified me that informed me that my daughter's mother had passed.
I was given bad advice by an attorney that I had to file a modification to the original custody orders, which the ct clerk refuse to put on the docket saying that I had to notify the grandmother first(was that true? My dughter's mother and I were the only parties of our custody case)
This opened the door for the GP to intervene.:confused:
To make a long story short my daughter was to inherit part of her mother's estate, estmated at 500K-1mil(which is why all of the filings from the grandmother) My daughter's 23 yrd old brother(mom's son) and grandmother went to various banks and represented themselves as my daughters legal guardian, and gained access to the accounts.(I have yet to file on the $ issues because my daughter is my concern)
I had to forcibly removed my daughter from her grandmother's house and she has been living with me ever since the funeral
My daughter's mother died of a drug over-dose, and my daughter's aunt has the same problem;however the grandmother is not fighting to get custody of these children, because my daughter's aunt isn't wealthy.:mad:
the judge has had several private meeitngs with the grandmother and her attorney, and have made several rulings, without me having any notification of a hearing, each ruling in favor of the grandmother, I cannot afford an attorney so I'm trying to fight as best I can.
Another issue that I have is that one of the orders was that my daughter be removed from my care temporarily. We were ordered into mediation, which i had to agree to a mediated settlement in order to have my daughter returned back to my home!:mad:
The setttle ment gave her grandmother visitation rights and me full custody of my daughter.
the point is that the troxel vs. glanville case staesthat parents rights trump gp rights, yet i have not had that afforded to me.
I found out later that even thought ther was a mediated sttlement that there is still yet another another hearing schedule for next month for requesting joint custody, Ithought that when they joined the case to getehr that that was the end; hoever, I found out that I was supposed to have sent a response to the seperate case , over 7 months ago..can I still send in a response?
Also I have tons of records showing that my daughter is doing welll and she has been an honor roll student, voted best-dressed and several awards since being in my care)
what do I do about the hearing
My daughter and I have been inseperable since her birth, when her mother decided to move to tx, from CA, I moved from CA the same day to be with my daughter.:)
At the time that my daughter's mother passed, her grandmother and family members, told my daughter's mother's live-in boyfriend, that they were not going to notify me and they were going to keep me in court until my baby turned 16. They did not notify me of her passing until 4 days later, which by then, they had even went so far as to hide my baby for the next 3 days before I even knew where she was.
It was her mother's boyfriend and and her best friend who notified me that informed me that my daughter's mother had passed.
I was given bad advice by an attorney that I had to file a modification to the original custody orders, which the ct clerk refuse to put on the docket saying that I had to notify the grandmother first(was that true? My dughter's mother and I were the only parties of our custody case)
This opened the door for the GP to intervene.:confused:
To make a long story short my daughter was to inherit part of her mother's estate, estmated at 500K-1mil(which is why all of the filings from the grandmother) My daughter's 23 yrd old brother(mom's son) and grandmother went to various banks and represented themselves as my daughters legal guardian, and gained access to the accounts.(I have yet to file on the $ issues because my daughter is my concern)
I had to forcibly removed my daughter from her grandmother's house and she has been living with me ever since the funeral
My daughter's mother died of a drug over-dose, and my daughter's aunt has the same problem;however the grandmother is not fighting to get custody of these children, because my daughter's aunt isn't wealthy.:mad:
the judge has had several private meeitngs with the grandmother and her attorney, and have made several rulings, without me having any notification of a hearing, each ruling in favor of the grandmother, I cannot afford an attorney so I'm trying to fight as best I can.
Another issue that I have is that one of the orders was that my daughter be removed from my care temporarily. We were ordered into mediation, which i had to agree to a mediated settlement in order to have my daughter returned back to my home!:mad:
The setttle ment gave her grandmother visitation rights and me full custody of my daughter.
the point is that the troxel vs. glanville case staesthat parents rights trump gp rights, yet i have not had that afforded to me.
I found out later that even thought ther was a mediated sttlement that there is still yet another another hearing schedule for next month for requesting joint custody, Ithought that when they joined the case to getehr that that was the end; hoever, I found out that I was supposed to have sent a response to the seperate case , over 7 months ago..can I still send in a response?
Also I have tons of records showing that my daughter is doing welll and she has been an honor roll student, voted best-dressed and several awards since being in my care)
what do I do about the hearing