QUESTION
Not enough words allowed: Parents have built case pro se with evidence and proof over 5 years. Grandmother has lied again to state. Is Tort claim best
Asked on Jan 24th, 2020 on Torts - Florida
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Grandmother contacts parents during parents financial hardship and offers to take in children. Parents agree understanding its temporary so they can get back on their feet. Then grandmother seeks the parents for voluntary temp custody due to school requirement. Parents consent thinking for the best of the children. Custody is granted with no support due to the grandmother claim she can provide (income above poverty level and title). Parents become homeless once child support is granted to her.Parents learn later that grandmother made claim the children had been placed with her through abandonment. Parents struggle for years with no help while grandparent denies benefits and support. Parents are stripped of privilege and persecuted by state. Record now shows no placement occurred despite her claim dcf removed them. Record shows no DCF involvement. Parents finally regain home and dissolve custody. Parents are seeking tort of deceit/misrepresentation and welfare fraud against grandmother.
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No more words are needed. Parents are deadbeats that could not care for thier own children and expect that the rest of the world owes them some obligation of support and care as adults, let alone for the children they brought into the world. So thestarting point is NO - there is no legal action against a grandparent because thet were forced to step in and do the job of raising thier grandkids because the parents incompetent to do so and at the expense of the grandparent on top of it. Sounds like the children should give thank every day that they had a grandparent willing to step up the plate whilt BOTH bioligcal parents dropped the ball - for whatever excuse, story or reason they will come up with. Hopefully, as suggested at the end of the post, the bio-parents got thier crap together and are now in a postition to be proper parents and fully support and care for thier children, on thier own, without expecting the government or other to pay for the care of THIER children.
Answered on Jan 24th, 2020 at 11:12 AM
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