Kayaiden8907
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I have got myself into a really complicated situation and have no idea how to fix things. I signed over custody of my son to my grand mother 8-10-2010. At the time I was having financial problems, I lost my job and was fixing to lose my house. I had no where to go and I was worried about my son. My grand mother was keeping my son at the time because I was in the hospital a lot. She started requesting that I sign over custody of my son to her. I told her I didn't want to but I was scared about our living situation and I wanted him to have a safe place to stay. Within a week my grand mother got an expensive lawyer served court papers. I didn't have a computer at the time and had no idea how anything like this worked and no money for a lawyer. I do not have a criminal back ground, and child services were never involved, and I was never proven an unfit mother. I ended up signing custody over to her because she said she would give my son back after I was more financially stable and she said I could visit him anytime. A few days after my car caught on fire leaving me with no transportation. I would call and ask her to pick me up so I could see my son but she would always come up with excuses. I recently found out I am pregnant again and found a safe place to stay. I found ways to visit my son but every time he would cry when I had to leave and say he wanted to stay with me not her. My grand mother refused to let me keep him even for a few hours. I started getting upset because I do not feel that it is the best interest for my son to stay some where he doesn't want to be so me and my grand mother started arguing and she stopped letting me see him. Finally my grand mother let me see him at my mothers house but when I had to leave my son started screaming and now my mom says I can't come see him there because she doesn't like seeing him upset. I plan on keeping this baby and me and the father have plans to get married. I want custody back of my son so that I can have my family and so he wont feel left out later in life. I realize it was a huge mistake for me to sign over custody and I feel heart broken. My family is mad at me for getting pregnant again so I feel like that's a reason why my grand mother wont let me see my son and no longer promises to give him back. My grandmother also says she paid the money to get him so now shes keeping him. That doesn't seem right to me. I don't have the money for a lawyer right now and I don't know how long it will take me to get the money. I'm scared that in that time my son won't want to stay with me anymore and I don't want him to think I forgot about him. I love my son more than anything and I don't know what to do at this point.