Desperatelyneedmykids
New Member
- Jurisdiction
- Arizona
My children's attorney filed the motion to terminate my parental rights. DCS did not. Is this legal? I had the understanding that only the state can file this motion. The judge denied my request to have an evidentiary review for the reason for removal because the reason was for medical neglect despite my youngest son having been at the doctor 2 days prior and cleared as healthy and gaining weight adequately. The judge's decision to sever was based on the caseworker saying that I have had with my ex that had a domestic violence charge. I had no opportunity to address this is issue. During the case I went through outpatient treatment, anger management, parenting classes and had clean drug tests for the entire 9 months. I consistently went to all my visits, was always prepared and was even told that I didn't need to do level parenting because my parenting ability was adequate for my 3 children. I was supposed to be getting home visits and moved to unsupervised visits shortly after and instead was blindsided by children's attorney filing this motion. Immediately after the trial date was set I was given a different court appointed attorney and at the pretrial settlement conference there was literally no discussion and the children's attorney has never once throughout the whole case contacted me directly. I have filed a notice of appeal but my dear is that the entire system seems rigged and that it will accomplish nothing. The foster mom is willing to adopt them but my aunt has come forward and requested to adopt them. Also the 2 youngests case was separated from my oldest who is 12 because they are under the age of 3 even though they had told me that they would track them with they're older half brother.
