If you have an attorney, I would ask him/her to take care of all the protocol arrangements. Perhaps you all could either leave immediately by another door or hang around the courthouse area for a looooong time afterward?

I'm sure we'll all be saying prayers that everything goes smoothly!

ok, so I was starting to type a response but reread what you wrote and realized you went to court already..... I hope everything worked out for you.... Please let us know how things went

Ok here is what happened. I am so mad. We got there and my husbands ex never showed up. That was a good thing. His daughter was there with the two girls and asked why we were there. We told her the case worker called and asked us to come. We didnt know why. The case worker didnt want us telling her anything. At the hearing none of us got to speak except for the attonerys and child protective services. We did not have an attorney. The magestrate never read completely through the report that children services submitted and said he didnt want to remove them today but could we all come back tomorrow. I told the case worker we couldnt and another social worker said she couldnt either because of another case. So he made it a week from tomorrow. He acted like he didnt care and was not wanting to remove the girls from their mother even though children services highly recommened it. so now we have to wait a week to see if we are going to get them. i dont understand the justice system at all. he is crazy for leaving them with her. we fear one of them is going to end up dead or seriously hurt. we have their room ready and waiting for them. we will see what happens. thanks to all for you concern and support.

We were in a similar situation and justice moves so slowly. My sil crazy wife set up one of her crazy dramas because we had permission to take gs to DisneyWorld for the weekend. She sent my sil and gs away and told police she didn't know where they were. We had a court order allowing us to take him. Our attorney hired a private detective who found them and sil was arrested and gs was put in our custody. Whacko stempmom sat in court with her "friend of the week" and stuck her tongue out at us, right in front of the judge. When judge ruled gs in our custody, she followed us to sheriff's dept where gs was waiting for us to pick him up and started making a fuss. Our attorney got a big guy from her office to escort us to our car. It was such an unneccessary melodrama. I hope all goes well with you next week. Hang in there. I know your pain.

I'm sorry you have to go through this at all.

But, that said, I think we all have similar drama with the courts. If you are getting temporary custody, just be forwarned that the drama continues, pretty much until you get full guardianship. Then it decreases somewhat, at least in my experience. But honestly, it never goes away. It is so sad.

Wishing you all the best. This week will be rough, at least they always were for me! Keep your heart and thoughts on the objective! Best wishes! and lots of {{{{HUGS}}}}.

Hi I am just curious how it went for you in court the 2nd time?
I hope you are doing alright. It seems terrible for you to return a week later. I bet you are nervous!