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Should You Use a Court Appointed Attorney in a CPS Case? (Pt 1)
Let’s start this article out with a nugget of truth, shall we? We understand that being able to choose your own attorney is a privilege, and not everyone can afford that option. But something else we understand, is that when you don’t hire a defense attorney and just take whatever the court gives you, you…
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Once Your Kids Are in Foster Care, Getting Them Back Can be Extremely Difficult!
When CPS takes your children away and places them in another home (whether it’s with strangers in a foster home, or with relatives of yours) you immediately become engaged in a battle where time is NOT on your side. And we don’t mean that from a legal standpoint, we mean as a parent. Once your…
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Why is Michigan CPS Trying to Take my Kids Away From me?
We’ve spent a lot of time on this blog talking about what to do when CPS workers show up on your doorstep, or how to handle it when someone accuses you of child abuse. But one of the subjects we haven’t covered in as much detail, is why CPS would want to take your kids…
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New Governor, New DHHS Director, But Can CPS be Fixed?
CPS in Michigan has a loooooong history of screwing up, not meeting goals, and falling short of the mark. And of this sounds like us trash talking an “enemy”, it isn’t – we’re simply stating the facts as CPS themselves have observed. Over the years there seems to have been an endless string of scandals,…
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CPS FYI: Facts about CPS That Every Michigan Parent Needs to Know (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. If you’re just finding this article now for the first time, it means you missed the intro and we recommend you spend a couple of minutes getting caught up here. And now that we’re all on the same page, let’s pick up where we left off, after talking…
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CPS FYI: Facts about CPS That Every Michigan Parent Needs to Know (Pt 1)
Some people (usually the parents and caregivers who’ve had the misfortune to tangle with a CPS worker) know a lot about how CPS works. But a surprising number of folks know almost nothing about the agency and how they operate. It might seem strange at first, to consider the idea that there are parents out…
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Factors That Could Influence CPS When it Comes to Removing Your Kids (Pt 4)
Thanks for joining us for the final wrap up of this talk about what could affect a CPS worker’s decision when it comes to removing your kids from your home. In the previous three articles we looked at a number of different factors than can all play a role in making you look like a…
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Factors That Could Influence CPS When it Comes to Removing Your Kids (Pt 3)
Thanks for joining us again for another look at some of the reasons CPS workers decide that kids are at risk of being neglected. As we pointed out in the previous two articles, it’s rarely just one thing (unless that one thing is really extreme). Usually it’s a combo deal, where several signs seem to…
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Factors That Could Influence CPS When it Comes to Removing Your Kids (Pt 2)
Hey there, thanks for joining us again for more on this unsettling but important topic – the factors that influence CPS decisions when they’re trying to figure out if a kid is at risk of abuse or neglect. Specifically, if they think the risk is high enough to warrant removing that child from their home.…
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Factors That Could Influence CPS When it Comes to Removing Your Kids (Pt 1)
There are a lot of factors that come into play when CPS shows up at a family’s front door and decides those kids are at risk and need to be removed. Some of them are probably pretty obvious – a child who is severely malnourished to the point that their bones are clearly visible, or…
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