Can you ever address a judge through a letter

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Ennairam

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Please read even if the answer is a categorical NO!
*****Please if you could do not give me just a flat out no for an answer.
Guide me to another way/ resource to be heard at our next hearing for partial custody.



Is it ever appropriate or better yet legal to send a request to a judge? Even delivered through a lawyer.

My reason.
In a grandparent rights case.
My lawyer is absolutely not getting our point across. He is wasting time and it would seem the judges patience on minor details that I even can see will not show me as a parent only a wonderful grandparent. The judge wouldn't even allow him to continue because the points were relevant. They may help factors later but not if the main point of wanting primary or even partial custody isn't heard.

I truly do fear for my grand-daughter's and I also strongly believe the judge will see their validity.
Because of these actions I am now reduced to seeking grandparents rights and my daughter relocated to NC.
The judge would not have allowed this if we had been properly heard. I have several witnesses with daily firsthand knowledge & detailed letters from others which he made no attempt to present. These would have gotten the judges attention.

I want to do what my lawyer should have. Point out what is at issue. Not just time spent caring for children.
That there is a very strong emotional bound & history of mental abuse from mother to children and it can be proven.
Then at least the decision is based on facts not fluff.

The children were to be heard but because of the above they have not. I know they are suffering.

I fear for not only the emotional safety(which is most important) of my grandchildren but they have left a safe community environment & good schools for a town & school that have both been rated as the very bottom of the barrel and they have been cut off from a family that they have seen near daily for 7 years.

I fully understand that I could not give details of the case.

Thank you!
 
If your attorney is not meeting your needs then get a new one.
Though you may well have good intentions it takes quite a bit to remove kids from their parents and you likely were not meeting that threshold.
If the kids are now in PA then any action you want to take will have to be initiated there.
I think there are still very few states that recognize any grandparents rights at all, and grandparents will always take a back seat to the parents rights.
 
I'm seeing a problem with the alleged abuse/neglect. Have CPS been involved?

OP, you need to understand that if you lose this case - and there's a better-than-decent chance that you will - you will likely never see the grandchildren again.

And even if you win, custody cannot be removed from the parents if they don't uphold court ordered visitation.

There's also a darned good reason why letters were ignored; they cannot be cross-examined.
 
The children are in NC now but proceedings started and are continuing here in PA.
Can I seek a new attorney now for the upcoming Grandparents custody case?
At this last proceeding both M and F's council agreed that we had standing for partial custody due to the fact that the parents were separated more than 6 months.

I have another thread on this. This separate question while I knew a very long shot occurred to me after I wrote that one.
I am feeling angry, desperate, let down and in need of direction.

I don't know when the next hearing is.

I appreciate your answer, thanks.
 
Expect Mom to challenge jurisdiction once she's been there long enough.

Expect to lose, and for Mom to feel completely betrayed. Expect that, if you lose, you will likely never see the children until they are adults.

Expect that if somehow you win, even if Mom doesn't uphold court ordered visitation, custody CANNOT be taken from her on this reason alone.

Is this really worth the risk? Suing the parents of your grandchildren is an extremely hostile act.
 
Just wanted to note that in regards to the letters, the people who wrote them were at the hearing and prepared to testify.
I thought I posted this so sorry if it appears twice.
 
And the answer to your question is, in fact, no. It is never, ever, ever, ever, ever appropriate to send a request through a letter to a judge. Even through a lawyer.
 
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