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1st Time in Delinquency Court...HELP!?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 532572" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Find a law school in your state, or just over a state border if you live near one. Call the law school and ask if someone can answer some questions. If needed, look up the faculty online and call each and every single faculty member and ask them. You can also look in the yellow pages for attorneys and find one wth a free 1/2 hr consultation. Go and ask them about the laws. If the first one doesn't answer, go to the next, and the next. MOST attys do a free 1/2 hr consult, esp for defense work. Ask each atty who cannot help if they know who can. </p><p></p><p>Also call the Clerk of Courts and ask them how to get help. Ask how to file for financial help. difficult child's atty may not be able to SPEAK with you, but seh CAN listen. Get your parent report and copy the history section and give her a copy, or type up a short (short as possible) outline of his history. Better to use bullet points than paragraphs. let her SEE the problems, what you have tried and has failed already. if she own't accept, find the person who recommended that you file.</p><p></p><p>You can also call the state bar association and ask them basic questions and how to get them answered. </p><p></p><p>When we were trying to press charges against Wiz, the deputy kept refusing to write them up. We only got before a judge because I refused, flat out, to let him stay at home. I told the deputy why it was too dangerous, showed him the bruises and marks, and he tried to convince me that Wiz 'didn't mean it". At the last court date the judge heard from us, then from CPS who said we were doing ALL the right things incl keeping Wiz out of the home for the safety of the rest of us. As the victim, I was able to speak to the judge but so were my husband and my mother.</p><p></p><p>You MAY be able to speak to the court as easy child's mother. She is not yet a teen, so her rights are different than difficult child's rights. I would push your status as HER mother to get you to speak to the courts esp about her fear of retaliation and how real it is and that it is an expectation and not a fear - fears may or may not come true, but expectations . . . .</p><p></p><p>I hpe this helps. It may take a lot of phone work. I usually write out the ?? I want answered or the outcome I want, SHORT background of situation (not of child), and then start on the next page writing the name, phone # and addy of the first contact, their answers, and then the 2nd person, etc...</p><p></p><p>You can also contact a church and/or the DV center to see if they can help. The DV center might require you and easy child to go to therapy with them (free) but they also usually have attys that clients can at least speak to. it cannot hurt to ask them.</p><p></p><p>I really hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 532572, member: 1233"] Find a law school in your state, or just over a state border if you live near one. Call the law school and ask if someone can answer some questions. If needed, look up the faculty online and call each and every single faculty member and ask them. You can also look in the yellow pages for attorneys and find one wth a free 1/2 hr consultation. Go and ask them about the laws. If the first one doesn't answer, go to the next, and the next. MOST attys do a free 1/2 hr consult, esp for defense work. Ask each atty who cannot help if they know who can. Also call the Clerk of Courts and ask them how to get help. Ask how to file for financial help. difficult child's atty may not be able to SPEAK with you, but seh CAN listen. Get your parent report and copy the history section and give her a copy, or type up a short (short as possible) outline of his history. Better to use bullet points than paragraphs. let her SEE the problems, what you have tried and has failed already. if she own't accept, find the person who recommended that you file. You can also call the state bar association and ask them basic questions and how to get them answered. When we were trying to press charges against Wiz, the deputy kept refusing to write them up. We only got before a judge because I refused, flat out, to let him stay at home. I told the deputy why it was too dangerous, showed him the bruises and marks, and he tried to convince me that Wiz 'didn't mean it". At the last court date the judge heard from us, then from CPS who said we were doing ALL the right things incl keeping Wiz out of the home for the safety of the rest of us. As the victim, I was able to speak to the judge but so were my husband and my mother. You MAY be able to speak to the court as easy child's mother. She is not yet a teen, so her rights are different than difficult child's rights. I would push your status as HER mother to get you to speak to the courts esp about her fear of retaliation and how real it is and that it is an expectation and not a fear - fears may or may not come true, but expectations . . . . I hpe this helps. It may take a lot of phone work. I usually write out the ?? I want answered or the outcome I want, SHORT background of situation (not of child), and then start on the next page writing the name, phone # and addy of the first contact, their answers, and then the 2nd person, etc... You can also contact a church and/or the DV center to see if they can help. The DV center might require you and easy child to go to therapy with them (free) but they also usually have attys that clients can at least speak to. it cannot hurt to ask them. I really hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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