Returning a child from CPS and foster care

This is The Barrows Firm Law Review, a monthly Internet radio show podcast featuring information about Texas law and events that affect families and the community of attorneys and professionals who serve them.

Returning a child from CPS and foster care:

• Why CPS removes children from parents
  • The purpose and function of CPS
  • Mandatory inquiries following reports to CPS
  • What are typical options and outcomes?
• What to do when a CPS caseworker visits you
  • How you are likely to be contacted
  • What should you do if CPS is at your door?
  • Can CPS visit with your child without you?
• How can you get your child returned from CPS and foster care?
  • What is the process for seeking the return of your child?
  • What are good reasons CPS returns children to parents?
  • Do you get contact with children placed in the foster system?
• Avvo.com and related questions
  • What to do with a collaborative law breaks down, and you need to proceed with Court intervention
  • Back child support payment and enforcement
  • Terminating child support when child reaches age 18
  • Parents recording phone calls with children
  • Reinstating an enforcement case that was dismissed

Leslie Barrows is the principal founder of The Barrows Firm in Southlake, Texas. In her firm’s main practice areas of family law and juvenile law, Leslie is consistently challenged with dynamic cases and clients. Leslie earned her undergraduate degree from Sam Houston State University and she earned her law degree from the Oklahoma City University School of Law. 

For more information at (817) 481-1583 for The Barrows Firm in Southlake, Texas.