AFRA I NEED HELP FIGHTING CPS NOW!


The FIRST THING

 If your kids have just been picked up ~ OR ~ If you haven't had a run-in with CPS yet. 
Short version below gleaned from advice from a 23-year veteran Child Welfare worker- Red words are the editor's

This word Preponderance, a legal precept, is your enemy

Preponderance of the evidence means that in the good judgment of the judge, the evidence presented indicates that a child has been harmed. Unfortunately, It is the PS worker who writes up a list of pieces of evidence that is called a petition. Often this evidence is presented ex parte meaning the alleged perpetrator is not present to defend him or herself. 

A lot of this so called evidence is the PS worker stating that they have seen or heard or whatever. 

It is very important that you get this petition. Go to the courthouse and ask the Court Clerk for a copy ~please~. It is public record. While you're there, ask when your hearing is scheduled.

Read it and respond to it in writing immediately and I cannot stress this word "immediately" enough.  Time is the critical factor here. 

A person does not need an attorney to do this.  If you feel you are not a good writer, then finding an English major will do more good than an attorney. If you have a witness or other documents to show that the petition is wrong, you should get this and show up in court (an hour early so you can watch and learn how it goes) with this stuff or the witness.

The parent usually is so busy running around looking for help to get the child back that the allegations stand only because no one challenged them. Also the parent may miss this hearing or don't know about it. It is this hearing that is most crucial.

If you have never had a problem with CPS (yet), the above "short version" is The #1 Thing to memorize for future use by yourself or others. You also want to go really learn your Miranda and Constitutional Rights.

If your kids have just been picked up, getting your Affidavit done and filed is the only thing you have to learn or do right now.  

Get this done FIRST. You have  only 72 hours or 3 days, or the weekend if it's Friday.

Then you can come back here and learn more later.

See the whole 23-year CW veteran essay here


Never been in the system?  Never had a friend, relative, or good neighbor be "investigated"? Don't understand what's happening?  Suffering under the illusion that this is a lawful government "service" that "helps kids and strengthens families?"

What it Feels like to be Falsely Accused!

It takes a while to realize it, but you have become a new actor in the CPS Soap Opera.  They have their parts memorized.  You are left to ad-lib.  You aren't likely to win an Oscar.

"While you are going through a CPS "investigation", you are so shocked, terrified, confused, bewildered, and disoriented- it doesn't occur to you that these people are running a SCAM on you under the COLOR OF LAW... AT NO TIME do they want it to occur to you that you have American Constitutional Rights and DO NOT "HAVE" TO PUT UP WITH their Nazi behavior. If the thought DOES CROSS YOUR MIND to even ASK- "What about my Rights?", you will be met with nasty, foul, sickening threats."

See "What it Feels like to be Falsely Accused!


*New Cases filed or decided*

*New Case Decided March 26, 2008- Smith v. Williams-Ash*
Voluntary safety plans that aren't voluntary will shoot you in the foot

Court rules social workers must follow law
Agencies, cops can't threaten to take kids away from parents asserting rights

Posted: October 25, 2007 1:00 am Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
 
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58338
 

See the Loudermilk ruling in both html and pdf format in the AFRA Caselaw Bin
http://familyrights.us/bin/caselaw/

This happens to be one of the FEDERAL CAPITAL CRIMES they have been committing
http://familyrightsassociation.com/bin/CPS_violates_these_every_case.htm

You've got to do the reading, folks, to understand the game we've all been forced to play. 
--Nancy Levant

"Its better to be ignorant and ask a Stupid Question than to be plain Dumb and not ask at all" -
Screamed by High School Math Teacher, 1979

There is no "Knight in Shining Armor" or "Gladiator" to come save you.  
We are not, and cannot.  

We are only supplying the moral support, tools, and EDUCATION 
for YOU to SAVE YOUR CHILDREN and yourselves.  

And you are the only one who can- we just show you how.

Read this, so you can understand the terminology and how the system operates.
How Does the Child Welfare System Work?
Author(s):  Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year Published:  2006

The Process Chart

Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)-

The Social Worker At Your Door: 10 Helpful Hints 12/11/2001
  Action steps to take when faced with a social services investigation.
Practical Ways to Reform the Child Welfare System 3/6/2000
  A guide to how states can reform their laws to protect parents from false abuse reports and intrusive Social Services investigation.

State of Washington-
childabuselaw
What advice does a suspect in a child abuse case need to hear right away?

No cases challenge a lawyer
more than those alleging child
abuse - and very few have
higher stakes.
-- David S. Marshall

He should not talk to the police or any other public agency about the accusation. If the suspect has information the police need, either to clear him or for any other purpose, he should pass it to them through counsel. http://www.childabuselaw.info


Taking over your case, going into court sui juris,
learning your rights and the process in the court.
Making the record, getting your discovery
Pamela and Will Gaston


CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
AND THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

A guide to protect the constitutional rights of both parents and children as ruled by the Federal Circuit Courts and Supreme Court


WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU


State Handbooks for parents and guardians in child abuse and neglect cases


State of New York-
What To Do If Your Children Are Taken Away By ACS
(BCW or CWA)

Your Right To A Hearing Immediately

Written by Maxine A. Ketcher, J.D. & Barbara Winter, CSW
4th Printing 8/97
A Bronx Legal Services Handbook

It may be written specifically for New York, but the general advice
applies EVERYWHERE.


Officious uh-fish-uhs]  adjective
 
1. objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
2. marked by or proceeding from such forwardness: officious interference.

See our STANDARD ADVICE

State of Colorado-
A document from a Colorado Lawyer's handbook on Juvenile courts. It contains a ton of valuable information, especially for parents who are new to this battle, and unsure where they are in the mess.  The best thing you can do is to protect yourself by knowing what SHOULD be done, and asking that it IS done. This will be a great guide, regardless of what state you are in. It is written for Colorado, but is fairly generic.

We have converted this Important Document from PDF to hyperlinked HTML-

Social Services Investigations: The Removal of Children From The Home
Copyright 2001 by The Rutherford Institute, P. O. Box 7482, Charlottesville, VA 22906-7482

Reference No.: E-09 Updated: 2/ 23/ 01

Parents in the United States are subject to increasing government involvement in their lives as they seek to properly raise their children. Administrative agencies of the government, which are created by statute to carry out broad directives such as maintaining the health and welfare of minor children, are given more and more discretion in performing those duties. Read the Whole Report


Believe it or not, everybody's case is pretty identical.  The CPS has led you to believe you are some kind of "special case".  The absurd accusations they have brought against you are NOT a "mistake".  It is a SCAM to keep you dizzy with fear. They have not "misunderstood" you.  THEY ARE DOING IT DELIBERATELY.

If you happen to be one of the EXTREMELY LUCKY FEW who have found this website BEFORE you are accused OR you have a situation where you believe YOU MIGHT BE ACCUSED in the near future, please read-

**Mission*Critical*Need*To*Know*Info**
AFRA Research- All about Miranda

Answer their first, simple questions truthfully.  If Johnnie or Suzie told the social worker they fell off the bicycle or down the stairs or hurt themselves on the trampoline, THINGS MIGHT be OK. 

Make sure you document this immediately after the interview happens.  Recorded or Videotaped is great too.

Beyond that, we advise that you cite your Fifth Amendment Right not to volunteer to tell them anything.  Anything you say most assuredly WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU.  Anything you say will come back twisted into a virtually unrecognizable tale.  The version of YOU they fabricate would be unrecognizable if it didn't have your name smeared all over it.

Is your court appointed lawyer
doing absolutely nothing?
Or worse?

The Public Defender Creed

Questions for YOUR Court appointed

The PROBLEM with PLEA BARGAINING

9th Circuit Says Public Defender Can Be Sued

Five Problems Facing Public Defense

and last, but not least, the-
Marsden Hearing

Do It Yourself Law
Learn how to defend yourself

Most often, falsely accused parents do not seek help until their case has become quite hopeless.  People find Parents Rights Advocates like us when they have become DESPERATE.  Usually, any money they had- has already disappeared into a law firm that did not present anything close to a defense.  So what are you going to do now that YOU ARE BROKE?

  • Usually, the man- father- daddy has already been forced out of his home and away from his family with false allegations of his "dangerousness", "violence", "abuse"- most often complete with restraining orders CPS forced the wife- mother to seek. 
  • It is ABSOLUTELY standard practice for CPS to threaten the wife-mother with being charged HERSELF for "failure to protect" if she defends the husband- daddy's innocence.
  • Most frequently, the husband- daddy has already lost his job due to the completely INSANE compelled classes, "counseling", "psych evaluations", drug tests, and other "meetings" scheduled during his WORK HOURS.
  • Most frequently, the wife- mother has been reduced to dependency on government programs such as Food Stamps, HUD housing, and whatever other government programs and classes can be FORCED ON HER.
  • And with INCREASING FREQUENCY, the wife- mothers are now being THROWN OFF the government programs and found "neglectful" because she cannot provide food and housing for the children.  CPS agencies across the nation are scooping up kids by the van-full.  
  • The "Divide and Conquer" scam is complete when they have daddy and momma in prison and the kids diagnosed with various mental syndromes so the CPS can collect the Social Security Title IV funds and keep the kids DRUGGED so they are "easy to handle".

*New Case Decided March 26, 2008- Smith v. Williams-Ash*
Voluntary safety plans that aren't voluntary will shoot you in the foot


LEGAL ABUSE SYNDROME  By Karin Huffer M.S., MFT
~and~
How to Survive Allegations of Child Abuse
http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-Allegations-of-Child-Abuse


 Grounds for Termination of Parental Rights State by State 

Permanent termination of parental rights has been described as "the family law equivalent of the death penalty in a criminal case." In re Smith (1991), 77 Ohio App.3d 1, 16, 601 N.E.2d 45, 54. Therefore, parents "must be afforded every procedural and substantive protection the law allows."
Orders unchallenged
There are two ways for parents to challenge adverse rulings by dependency court judges. One is by filing a legal document called a dependency writ, challenging a judge's order terminating reunification services - a precursor to ending parental rights. The second is
by filing an appeal. Appellate lawyers who represent the parents in higher courts contend local attorneys are not aggressively bringing such challenges.

That's because people are poor, and if they weren't CPS has destroyed their finances. Justice is expensive.


Join an Online Help Group at yahoo and others.  There are more all the time.  

Check your AFRA State Membership Page to see if your state has an AFRA state group. 

AFRA's OFFICIAL HELP yahoogroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AFRA_HelpLine/ 

See our STANDARD ADVICE


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While this is an accurate representation of what happens to a family in "family court"-  there are some major details missing: 

Momma and papa are seldom left together. Ideally, both will be in prison for plea bargaining when they were innocent and paying child support from their prison pay.  

Also missing carrying off the money are the colluding psychiatrists who helped assassinate the parent's character, and the fosterwardens.  

The kids won't be bawling because they are going to be doped out of their heads in foster prison.  They have become "special needs" to maximize the Federal Funding streams.


Disclaimer:

Nothing here is to be construed as "Legal Advice".  We are NOT lawyers, and we are not pretending to be.
(Except for AFRA's Lawyer Members, who most certainly are NOT "pretenders")

We work for free.  No Family Rights Advocate under the AFRA umbrella charges you for their help.  You may feel free to help your advocate financially, but you are NOT required to do so.  

Some of AFRA's member advocacies may have 501 (c)(3) Non-profit Tax Free status  Many do not, and must not represent that donations to them are "Tax Free".

American Family Rights Association does NOT have a 501(c)(3)

We don't want one because we refuse to have our political activities hand-cuffed:

IRS Charities & Non-Profits Page

"An IRC Section 501(c)(3) organization may not engage in carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities."

We do NOT seek donations or membership fees of any kind.  If you want to help Families, we recommend you support your local advocacy.  

Otherwise, if you want to help, we recommend you to print large quantities of our brochures and distribute them widely to prepare young families for "The Visit"

We look forward to the day that we can disband AFRA because government has returned to the Constitution and stopped the politics of Family Destruction.