Q: My brother and his girlfriend wanna give me there baby what do I need to do? An will cps be involved?
My brother an his girlfriend have a baby he just turned 1 they both say they can't care for him mentally or financially an there splitting up and wanna give him to me there asking me if cps would have to be involved? and if so would they let me keep him? They don't want him in foster care nor do I I'm married an have 6 kids ages ranging from 5 to 17 we live in a 5 bedroom home plenty big enough I'm just worried about cps bc there dirty my sister lost her son to foster care an the day before I had to go to court to try an get custody cps showed up saying they had an anonymous call that I was abusing my kids I only had 3 then an so I couldn't even be considered which was complete bs they never even did follow up after his adoption they just closed the case my mom they said was to disabled my aunt they said had to many kids already an my other brother didn't have a job an his girlfriends job did not count bc they wasn't married even tho they lived together point is they are not trustable
A: You can file a custody action and do it all by agreement, most likely without any intervention from CPS.
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