Court Ordered Drug Rehabilitation

My husband is 40 and he has two sons (12 & 9) with his ex. They had joint legal custody and he had full physical custody until last December. She is a long time prescription drug addict and overdosed in December. We went to court and got full custody and stayed the visitation. Since then the DA has filed criminal charges against her and she got monitored visitation for two hours a week. According to the Order she is supposed to be going to an outpatient rehab and providing proof that she is doing so, we haven’t seen anything yet, all she provided was a letter from a sober living home that she doesn’t even live at. We did subpoena the records from this place but haven’t gotten anything back yet. We are going back to court next week and the judge said that she might be able to give her full visitation back if she provides the information requested in the order. She is definitely lying about going to the rehab, we have been to the meetings at the sober living home and she is no where to be found. How could the court give her full visitation back despite the fact that we have provided the court her extensive history, she has admitted to the abuse, has criminal charges against her and hasn’t done anything about it? We are trying to figure out if there is another way to prove that she is still using, we know that she is…just the fact that we need to prove it..any ideas?

4 years ago i received a call from child services to go in to their office and talk to one of their workers about my daughter. It turns out her mother was using drugs and leaving my daughter with different relatives for weeks at a time i always knew and tried to stop it but courts always want proof as long as i received my visits she was fine they would say well because of the drug abuse they gave me the proof i needed to take to family court and was granted full custody with no visits from her mother till she did everything she was ordered to do rehab and so on at that time my daughter was 7 now shes 12 well 4 years with no contact she bettered her self and cleaned up shes taking me to court for a modification of custody her wanting full custody and now me getting visits on weekends we went to mediation and no agreement i told her i did not want to hand her over like nothing happened in this 4 years my daughter has accomplished alot and i don’t want her interrupted she feels confident because she got her other daughters back from a previous relationship back but the guy did not put up a fight he was better of giving his girls back he says IM married and have 2 other girls here in my home they don’t want there older sister to move out im okay with visits but not moving out what will happen in the first court hearing will it get resolved or is there more court battles till this conflict is resolved will she win does the judge consider her absence taking so long we signed a safety pack thru child services with her agreeint to full custody for me while seeking treatment will it help my case and the letters and reports of child services

I am a mom and I currently have custody of my two older sons. Their father was arrested on a Felony drug charge twice. Pocession of a controlled substance.. The courts are wanting us to do and evaluation. they had ordered himto do a drug test which was negative and he is on probation for the next 3 years…He is also going to AA?NA and another drug rehab program… if he messes up once he has to do full time served in jail… i was wondering if anyone would know why we have to go through an evaluation?? I live in California Merced County. I believe the mediator is biased… how would I get that across to a judge? The mediator had previously given my ex-husband primary custody just less than a year ago… and knew about the first arrest and still gave my ex custody… I have never been in trouble don’t do drugs and I dont drink… but yet it seems like the mediator wants my ex to have my children. what should I do?

he is the type of person who dosen’t like to work and has only held about two jobs in his lifetime, how can i go about enforcing child support from him? we have been to court several times in the past and the only dime he has paid was when they arrested him for failure to keep a court order, but that was in nassau county, now im in the county of kings, how does this work, cant they make him get a damn job hes a lazy individual , by the way whom was not like that when i met him. and for some reason it’s always the niceness in the begining.

I am very confused with this case. My very own mother, who is a drug addict and has many mental health issues such as Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depression, Schizophrenia with Psychotic Episodes as well as does the man that she married 2 years ago that she met in a Psychiatric Hospital and only knew for 3 weeks before she married him, took custody of my girls from me. My ex husband stabbed me 4 times in the face and neck 2 days after Christmas and left me for dead. Luckily I survived. I took my girls and went to live with my mom because I had no where else to go and she told me she was going to help me. I was having a very hard time sleeping at night because of the nightmares and I was having panic attacks. My mom started giving me xanax to help me sleep and stay calm. Out of nowhere, my mom went to the DHS and made up a bunch of lies and told them I was all strung out on drugs which was not true. I asked for a drug test and they refused to give me one. When we went to court, the judge would not even let me speak the first word or defend myself. I didn’t have an attorney. I had no clue that she had made up so many horrible lies on me and all the while she was on drugs herself. My mom was issued temporary emergency custody of my girls. I was ordered to do a drug program. I had a full time job and I asked if I could do outpatient and I was told no. When I finally got the court order 6 months later, it said impatient was preferred not ordered. So I couldn’t complete an impatient program because I had a home, a car, and I still financially supported my girls. The company I worked for went out of business in May and I immediately began a new job. That job ended in September and I immediately began another job. When I went back to court in October, my mother gave custody to my ex husbands great grandmother and great aunt. They ordered me to have no contact with my girls and I dint understand why. In court, they jumped my case saying I should have done outpatient and I tried to explain to the judge that I called and asked my caseworker and she told me that it was unacceptable. Its a messed up court system. I wasn’t even allowed to speak in court. I tried to speak one time and I was told that if I spoke again I would be held in contempt of court. So all I could do was remain quiet while my so called mother sat right beside me and lied on me. The judge told me I had to quit my job and the only thing I was to do now was go to rehab. Well, I quit my job. I am on a waiting list to get into a rehab that I found that would take me without insurance. I have at least 4 more weeks left on the waiting list. I go to court in March and I know his family is going to fight me for full custody. I dint know what to do. I am by far not a bad mom. I have never so much as spanked my kids ever. I have taken care of them by myself while being in a very abusive relationship with their father. I ha vent spoken to or seen my girls in 2 months today and Im about to lose my mind. My girls love their Mommy and they cry to be with me. They carried them out of the courtroom crying that they want their Mommy and they love their Mommy and she is not a bad person. Its killing me to know that they want me so bad and I cant do anything about it. No one has even explained to my babies why Im not there. They have no clue what is going on. Its so unfair!!!!!! I don’t understand how this could happen when they had no evidence against me. All they had was my moms word and she is legally crazy!! I cant afford an attorney now because the judge ordered me to quit my job till I go to rehab. I need an attorney to represent me in court in March or I could possibly lose custody of my girls for good and for no reason at all. Can anyone help me with this situation?? All I want is my babies back so we can go back to being a family like we were before my husband tried to kill me. I love my babies with all of my heart and would never put them in harms way and they will tell you that themselves. What do I do before I do lose my mind??

My wife’s Ex lost his job and went to drug rehab for 3 months back in 2007. He didn’t pay her child support during that time, but when he got out she verbally agreed to allow him to pay 400 a month instead of the court ordered 641.

Now, he is taking her to court to get the child support recalculated, which is fine. However, he is refusing to pay the back child support.

My question is since she agreed to let him pay 400 a month until he got back on his feet, will a court award her the back child support of the difference between the 400 and 641?

I would like informatin on drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers for a mother who would like her three month old child with her. Any listings for California and possibly the closest to Redding California. It is not a court ordered situation just a person wanting rehabilitation and to find her right path in life.She is a Native American Indian so if there are Native American Indian Rehabs we would like that information also.