Q: What do I do to get my ten year old son back from his grandparents?
I have joint custody of a 10 year old. His mother disappeared with him at 2 and despite multiple motions filed, she simply would not show up and the courts said they could do nothing about it. I recently found out her mother has the child now because she went back to drugs and now the grandmother is procrastinating letting me come back in his life. I dont want to rip him away because it has been several years since he seen me but I also want to get back in his life. What steps should I take from here? Grandmother says he is in therapy and worried this will traumatize him
A: If you are the only living custodian and the gp don’t have any custodial rights and are not de facto custodians, you can take your court order at any time and go retrieve him. I’d get him into counseling though, bc the retrieval May be a traumatic experience.
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