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<blockquote data-quote="Sister's Keeper" data-source="post: 679312" data-attributes="member: 20051"><p>The boys paternal great-grandmother had legal custody of them before they came to live with us. Dad is an addict, too. She willingly signed over custody to us. She was elderly and 2 young boys were really more than she can handle. </p><p></p><p>When Little Girl was born and tested positive my sister was given the choice to either sign over legal custody of Little Girl to us or she would go into foster care. My sister is one, hot drug addicted mess, but she isn't stupid or cruel, she knew that giving us custody was in Little Girl's best interest. There was never any court order that said she wasn't allowed contact with the kids. I was hoping that being with her kids would give her impetus to get herself together if she was in a family environment. I was wrong.</p><p></p><p>Little Girl was in NICU for 20 days. She wasn't home maybe 2-3 weeks before I realized Sis was using again after she stole from us, so I put her out.</p><p></p><p>I have legal custody of the kids. I have their state benefits, which, frankly, suck, especially in regards to counseling and psychiatric care. My husband is a state employee. His benefits are very good.</p><p></p><p>Since bio dad and Sis signed over legal custody of all the children, and since neither has made minimal (Sis, a random birthday or Christmas card when she is in jail) or no attempt (bio dad) to be a part of the children's lives in the past 4 years, and they have lived in a stable home since then, the legal proceeding should be fairly straight forward. </p><p></p><p>Plus Sis will be in prison, hard to really protest from there, and bio dad hasn't been heard from in over a year. She is protesting now, but if I know her, rather than mount any type legal process she will probably, in the end, sign off. Follow through isn't exactly her greatest skill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sister's Keeper, post: 679312, member: 20051"] The boys paternal great-grandmother had legal custody of them before they came to live with us. Dad is an addict, too. She willingly signed over custody to us. She was elderly and 2 young boys were really more than she can handle. When Little Girl was born and tested positive my sister was given the choice to either sign over legal custody of Little Girl to us or she would go into foster care. My sister is one, hot drug addicted mess, but she isn't stupid or cruel, she knew that giving us custody was in Little Girl's best interest. There was never any court order that said she wasn't allowed contact with the kids. I was hoping that being with her kids would give her impetus to get herself together if she was in a family environment. I was wrong. Little Girl was in NICU for 20 days. She wasn't home maybe 2-3 weeks before I realized Sis was using again after she stole from us, so I put her out. I have legal custody of the kids. I have their state benefits, which, frankly, suck, especially in regards to counseling and psychiatric care. My husband is a state employee. His benefits are very good. Since bio dad and Sis signed over legal custody of all the children, and since neither has made minimal (Sis, a random birthday or Christmas card when she is in jail) or no attempt (bio dad) to be a part of the children's lives in the past 4 years, and they have lived in a stable home since then, the legal proceeding should be fairly straight forward. Plus Sis will be in prison, hard to really protest from there, and bio dad hasn't been heard from in over a year. She is protesting now, but if I know her, rather than mount any type legal process she will probably, in the end, sign off. Follow through isn't exactly her greatest skill. [/QUOTE]
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