self preservation
Regular Member
Ok, here's my pickle. I have a 7 year old son that I was just awarded custody to from the courts due to his Mother being unfit. Keep in mind that she and I have been seperated for about 4 or 5 years now and live on different ends of town. I have since married and she has since had 2 more kids with a different man. Of course when we went to court over her "mis-haps" the judge got CPS involved. They now want to come to my house and ask a bunch of questions (again) about how I live and want me to agree to a "case plan"
From what I can tell a case plan is a plan to get families "back on track", but my problem is that my family is already "on track". She is the one that screwed up but they want me to answer a bunch of questions and sign a bunch of papers saying that "I will be good" but I am already good!!! I want to refuse to answer the questions such as "do you keep guns in your home" or "Do you EVER drink" but I am afraid that the good ole 5th Amendement may screw me in this case. Has anyone ever dealt with this kind of situation or have any knowledge on what a dad is supposed to do?
I don't want to shoot myself in the foot but I don't want to give up my rights either.:banghead:
From what I can tell a case plan is a plan to get families "back on track", but my problem is that my family is already "on track". She is the one that screwed up but they want me to answer a bunch of questions and sign a bunch of papers saying that "I will be good" but I am already good!!! I want to refuse to answer the questions such as "do you keep guns in your home" or "Do you EVER drink" but I am afraid that the good ole 5th Amendement may screw me in this case. Has anyone ever dealt with this kind of situation or have any knowledge on what a dad is supposed to do?
I don't want to shoot myself in the foot but I don't want to give up my rights either.:banghead: