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Cps Is Pitting Me Against Judge’s Orders

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TLDR: Judge ruled standing orders for now. CPS is telling me I need to go against judge’s orders and keep my son away from his mom.

My ex-wife started having psychoses and delusions, and shaved off her hair and eyebrows because she thought she had black mold growing in her scalp. Many other delusions such as threads coming out of her eyes. My son texted me “dad emergency please call” at 10:30pm on Dec. 29th. I called the police and drove to her house, the police told me she was displaying mental decompensation and self mutilation. They held her on a 48-hour EDO and took her to an inpatient psychiatric treatment facility. I hired an attorney, filed an ex parte TRO and a petition for amended custody. At the hearing on Jan. 17th and the judge ruled there’s not enough evidence she’s a danger to my son and ordered we go back to regular custody while case is still open. Since then, she has started to project her delusions onto my son, saying he has black mold, lice, and pinworms growing out of his skin. She called me Monday Feb 10th at 1:00am saying something was wrong with her and my son, and asked me to take them to the hospital. I took them to the ER hoping doctors would initiate a psych evaluation. At the ER, she admitted giving my son pinworm medication even though he doesn’t have pinworms. The nurses pulled me aside and said they thought she was on meth and they would not let my son go home with her. Police came, determined she was unfit to keep my son, and held her again on another EDO. This time the hospital social worker filed a report with CPS. My son and I had an interview with the CPS investigator last night. CPS investigator said she agrees his mom isn’t safe, but they don’t have the power to force her to let me keep my son, He’s scheduled to go back to his mom Monday morning, but CPS investigator told me I should not let my son go back to her, and if I did, CPS might find me partially responsible if anything happens to him. I explained to the CPS investigator that the judge ruled we go by standing orders and regular custody schedule for now. The CPS investigator and her supervisor both told me to keep my son and go against the judge’s order. Their exact words were “screw the judge’s order, you have to protect your son.” I’m trying to get a hold of my attorney over the weekend, but I don’t know if he will respond until Monday morning after the time my ex-wife is supposed to pick up my son. I literally have two government entities telling me to do the opposite of each other. Do I have enough new evidence to justify going against the judge’s order?

submitted by /u/Alexandercromwell
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