Asked on Aug 31st, 2015 on Child Custody - Wisconsin
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I filed for primary custody due to the fathers drug history. He also abandoned me and his baby knowing i was about to be evicted with a baby and no place to live. I feel that wad neglect and abandonment of his child. i recieved primary and he got secondary supervised. He violated the supervised court order i have police evidence. I filed for sole full custody.
I also filed contempt of the court order and contempt of court ordered child support. At the hearing the judge gave him primary placement and me secondary supervised. My request for sole full custody from primary to full was not addressed and no Gal was appointed or present on behalf of my babiest best interest. My baby was ripped from my arms. My baby at this point just a week before she turned two had never been out of my care. Emotionaly i can't imagine what she is going through.
Her father does not have a stable address he has a very strong drug history and many overdoses on heroin and opiates. Also he has not let me see myb
Why did the court do a reversal and place the child with dad instead of you? Your initial information indicated that you had primary placement and dad had supervised placement. Why did the initially order dad with supervised placement? The court usually will only order supervised placement where there is a risk of harm, physically or emotionally to the child. From there, after you filed another motion to modify, for some unexplained reason, the court changed things and made dad primary and gave you supervised placement? what was the reason in court and what happened for the court to have done a reversal on you? what is the basis for ordering you to have supervised placement? The court is required to appoint a guardian ad litem (attorney) to advocate for your baby. Has that been done? Is the order designed to be a temporary interim order or is this order designed to be long term ("permanent.") I am not sure at the moment there is anything more you can do. The family courts hear the term "emergency" all the time, and they don't seem to think anything is an emergency. Was this a judge that issued the order or a family court commissioner? If the court commissioner issued the order, you have a right to appeal the order to the judge by filing an appropriate motion de novo. Such motion must be timely filed under the local court rule. The rule (time line) varies from county to county in Wisconsin.
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