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Can Children Participate in CPS Court Hearings That Affect Their Future?
Ask any parent and they’ll tell you – given the choice between cake and ice-cream for dinner, or broccoli and chicken, most kids would choose the less healthy option! Why? Because kids usually go for what feels or sounds good right now, without taking into account how that choice could impact them in the future.…
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Texas Judge Orders Sanctions Against CPS For Wrongful Removal (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been discussing a case that’s made headlines all over the US in the last few days. It took place in Texas, but is symptomatic of what’s happening all over the country, and particularly here in Michigan – where CPS is tearing families apart with no regard for…
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Texas Judge Orders Sanctions Against CPS For Wrongful Removal (Pt 1)
It’s not often that you hear of a Judge actively seeking to punish CPS for their rotten choices and violations of people’s rights. In fact, CPS workers so often seem to operate with total disregard for the law, and so we tend to assume that they don’t believe they’re accountable to anyone. But every now…
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CPS: A Long History of Separating Children From Their Parents
There has been a great deal of media coverage and social media dialogue over the last six months or so about the families being separated at the border. The stories of children being taken from their parents without just cause have been rampant, and heartbreaking pictures of children held in chain-link pens with nothing more…
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“When The Welfare People Come” – The Broken Child Welfare System in America
The issue of CPS’s unethical approach to parenting oversight, and the long history they have with dividing families, has been a subject of heated debate for many years. And yet for many people who’ve never personally encountered CPS, they have no idea that the issue is even an issue – can you imagine that!? Despite…
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How CPS Plans to Fix Everything That’s Wrong at The Agency
If you follow our blog (or read the news) then you know that CPS is in trouble. A recent audit revealed that mismanagement, errors and poor case outcomes are not occasional issues, but daily norms at CPS. Hundreds of investigations not handled. Thousands of children left in seriously abusive situations, or pulled from loving families…
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Understanding the Various Types of Caseworkers in Neglect/Abuse Cases
In some of our family law cases, our clients are also dealing with some sort of caseworker in a related neglect/abuse case. However, we might not know exactly with which type of caseworker our client is dealing with. Knowing the answer to that—and then understanding the differences between the various types of caseworkers—will help us…
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Does CPS Investigate Every Single Allegation Made?
The answer is yes. And no. (Confusing, right?) If an allegation is made about a child being abused or neglected, CPS is required to investigate the claim. However, there’s a little more to it than that. Sometimes an investigation amounts to nothing, and there are usually reasons for that. Sometimes the claim obviously doesn’t warrant…
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What You Need to Know About Suing CPS in Michigan’s Federal Court
The thought of suing CPS can be a very daunting process. After all, they have access to enormous resources, and have “the law on their side” – or so they’d like you to think. But when CPS has violated your constitutional rights, sometimes you have no other option but to fight fire with fire. And…
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What is ‘Brittle Bone Disease’ And Why Does it Matter to CPS?(Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been talking about brittle bone disease and how it’s been the cause of so many falsely accused parents here in Michigan. As we pointed out before, in the previous article, most cases of brittle bone disease happen when worried parents take their crying babies to hospital to…
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