Quote: I have 6 all together. I was really sick when I was pregnant with the youngest & my exes saw opportunity to get out of paying child support. My kids got split between 3 households. I managed to get my youngest daughter back over 3 yrs ago when his wife lied to the court & tried to cover for him being in prison. My 2 oldest are with their dad & are 18 & 17. The 17 yr old plans to come back to live with me in March when he turns 18 because his father & brother are abusive to him (again, can't prove it). My 2 middle childern are girls (15 & 13) & their father has refused to let me see them in almost 3 years, in contempt of a court order, yet the court refuses to enforce the order. Since I no longer live where I used to & the kids aren't in that county any more either I may have to file for change of jurisdiction to get anything done. I DO know that the step-mom has to file through the original order to attempt to get custody, that I have to be notified since my name is on the case & that she has to reveal his abuse (which will also tell the court she covered for him since she went to court & flat out lied the last time) in order to have cause for a change of custody. I plan on filing for emergency custody (children's services told me to) tomorrow morning as soon as I can get to a fax machine (the court is almost 2 hr drive from me). Other than the upstairs being ripped apart (we have completely blocked access to that part of the house from inside & have to unscrew a panel covering an exterior door on the outside to get in) & there not being any carpet or wall paper on any of the walls the house is quite safe. It's just not pretty in the least. All I have to say about the entire situation is this: Children's Services & the court absolutely did not check out where they were sending my children & F'd up ROYALLY! I may end up suing them yet over the abuse & neglect my youngest daughter suffered at the hands of her drug addict father & step-mother, both of which were supposed to have a minimum of 3 random drug tests done & turns out not a single 1 was done at all before or after they sent my daughter there.