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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 347880" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Yes- difficult child has always had a defense attny. Even though our GAL's are attny's, they cannot also act as the defense attny on the same case. difficult child's last def attny was public- working in the same bldg for these same people. His previous one was private, that I hired. I had asked him about this before- he told me I had no choice but to sign anything a PO puts in front of me or they will make sure difficult child doesn't come home. People in this state that have had to deal with our juvenile system say this is the way this state does things- it'ss to motivate the parent to keep the kid out of trouble. He told me the last PO (actually 2 attnys told me) was determined to nail me to a wall. Apoarently, it came from GAL who formed her opinions based on what my bro told her because she was spending more time talking to him than difficult child's psychiatrist, tdocs, people iin our lives, etc, like she should have been. But it got worse after I chose to pursue that court hearing to have mst removed when they refused to just go ask the judge to change the order without a court hearing. I hired an attny, went to court, and while there testifying, revealed everything about my bro and what GAL had done (and not done), including coming to court portraying to judge what difficult child's psychiatrist recommended, but in actuality she had never even spoken to his psychiatrist and she claimed there was no way I could know that but I said yes there is- he told me- and that was true. The people that all work together over there are a clique and I honestly can't think of any other reason why the last PO wanted so bad to nail me- except she made it clear that she was not happy about me pursuing mmental health options instead of ONLY doing what she ordered. And I brought that out to the judge too- and of course, all these people were sitting in the court room and heard me.</p><p></p><p>The last defense attny did tell me off the record that the GAL was, well, the problem, but if I ever took any action against her legally, that she would make sure I regretted it, even going so far as to cost me custody. (You gotta love those ethics, huh?) I can't afford an attny now and it would do me no good anyway. If it ever gets to a point where permanent custody is a court issue, then I would qualify for a public defender. As long as it's just me being the parent of a kid in trouble, I can't even speak in court unless called to testify by either the prosecuter, def attny, or GAL. So they can misrepresent things all they want in court and I would never have a chance to respond. I have submitted a letter asking for this GAL to get replaced should difficult child ever need one again- technically she's off the case any time difficult child does not have an active court hearing coming up, but since I've heard her standing in the hall, in the public area, talking about my son (another no-no), I know she isn't keeping her mouth shut about difficult child's case. The judge is leaving so any future court appearance will be in front of a judge who knows NONE of these details and will go by what GAL and PO say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 347880, member: 3699"] Yes- difficult child has always had a defense attny. Even though our GAL's are attny's, they cannot also act as the defense attny on the same case. difficult child's last def attny was public- working in the same bldg for these same people. His previous one was private, that I hired. I had asked him about this before- he told me I had no choice but to sign anything a PO puts in front of me or they will make sure difficult child doesn't come home. People in this state that have had to deal with our juvenile system say this is the way this state does things- it'ss to motivate the parent to keep the kid out of trouble. He told me the last PO (actually 2 attnys told me) was determined to nail me to a wall. Apoarently, it came from GAL who formed her opinions based on what my bro told her because she was spending more time talking to him than difficult child's psychiatrist, tdocs, people iin our lives, etc, like she should have been. But it got worse after I chose to pursue that court hearing to have mst removed when they refused to just go ask the judge to change the order without a court hearing. I hired an attny, went to court, and while there testifying, revealed everything about my bro and what GAL had done (and not done), including coming to court portraying to judge what difficult child's psychiatrist recommended, but in actuality she had never even spoken to his psychiatrist and she claimed there was no way I could know that but I said yes there is- he told me- and that was true. The people that all work together over there are a clique and I honestly can't think of any other reason why the last PO wanted so bad to nail me- except she made it clear that she was not happy about me pursuing mmental health options instead of ONLY doing what she ordered. And I brought that out to the judge too- and of course, all these people were sitting in the court room and heard me. The last defense attny did tell me off the record that the GAL was, well, the problem, but if I ever took any action against her legally, that she would make sure I regretted it, even going so far as to cost me custody. (You gotta love those ethics, huh?) I can't afford an attny now and it would do me no good anyway. If it ever gets to a point where permanent custody is a court issue, then I would qualify for a public defender. As long as it's just me being the parent of a kid in trouble, I can't even speak in court unless called to testify by either the prosecuter, def attny, or GAL. So they can misrepresent things all they want in court and I would never have a chance to respond. I have submitted a letter asking for this GAL to get replaced should difficult child ever need one again- technically she's off the case any time difficult child does not have an active court hearing coming up, but since I've heard her standing in the hall, in the public area, talking about my son (another no-no), I know she isn't keeping her mouth shut about difficult child's case. The judge is leaving so any future court appearance will be in front of a judge who knows NONE of these details and will go by what GAL and PO say. [/QUOTE]
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