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My fiancee is a registered SO, violated probation and served 4 years in prison, now he is getting out in 9 days. We live in Texas and I have 21 sites bookmarked on my browser doing all kinds of searches to find out if he can reside with me and my kids. So far the only thing I've found is that the father of the kids must be told about his offense in which the father was told and has spent time with my fiancee. The father of my kids wrote a letter of adknowledgment/ acceptance of my fiancee living with us, also my mother is the owner of the house that we are renting which is not inside a child safety zone, my mother has also agreed to put him on the lease as an occupant and write a similar letter adknowledging that he is an offender but allowed to live in her house as landlord. Does anyone else have any insight to my worries if he can stay or not with us? Other than being nervous about where he'll be able to reside I am very excited :) It's going to be a long, hard, tough ride for us but we've held strong these years and hopefully we will beable to become a family and live our lives as peacefully as possible. (we will be moving to Mills county, TX..little tiny town)
I have worked in prison reform, with sex offenders, with those on the sex offender registry for almost 20 years now. I don't post on this forum anymore, as most of the support people have moved to the new forum here----
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Back to your problem at hand. If your guy is off probation and is not on parole----has no paper time----then he can legally live with you and the minor children. In other words, it is not against the law.
The problem you might possibly encounter is if the biological father of the children complains to CPS that a sex offender is living with his kids. CPS will then likely open an investigation and make your life hell. They could even take your children from you.
I would strongly advise that you have a long talk with the children's father and ensure that he has no problem with a sex offender living with them.
If you have a problem, it will be from the Child Protection Services or the DHS, not the law.
Hope this helps.
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But anyone can file a complaint with CPS; it does not have to be the father of the children. If CPS should receive a complaint from a citizen, then CPS would likely open an investigation. After they finished their investigation, they may just drop the matter. But if someone files a complaint, they will probably be on your doorsteps wanting to talk.
They will want you to prove to them that the children are in no danger.
It would be money well spent to speak to an attorney in your area to get a better picture how they handle these situations in Texas. The cost would be nominal and it will give you some peace of mind.
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