Re: legal guardanship

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On 1/14/08, sharwinston wrote:
> Petition the court. You will have to notify all parties who
> are required to get notice under your state's laws,
> including biomom if she's alive and can be found. The
> burden of proof is on you to prove that it is in the best
> interests of the children to appoint you their legal
> guardian. You can expect biodad to contest the
> guardianship.
>
> The fact that biodad does not do anything for them does not
> make him an unfit parent. There has to be more than an
> allegation by you that he doesn't do anything for his
> children. Calling your mother bad names and wishing she
> were dead is not grounds for suspending his parental rights
> and appointing anyone a guardian.
>
> You don't just go suspend someone's parental rights and
> appoint a legal guardian based on the scant info you've
> posted.
>
> On 1/14/08, Kimberlee wrote:
>> I would like to get legal guardanship of my 7 &8 year old
>> nephews because their father my brother does not do
>> anything for them and expects my mother to do it all. My
>> brother lives with my mother and all they do is fight. My
>> brother is always calling my mother bad names and wishing
>> she was dead. He is setting a example to my nephews that
>> it is alright to fight and say bad things.

I believe he is phsyically abusive to the kids but I don't
know because I don't live there. I know he does not take them
to the doctor or buy them clothes, food, etc. I also believe
he has a girlfriend who beat up my mother in her house while
my brother and his kids were there and all he did was watch
his girlfriend beat up my mother.