Tag: Los Angeles DCFS
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The Williams Parents Enjoy Very Brief Visit with Their Children
ADOPTED BY GRANDPARENTS THROUGH LOS ANGELES DCFS by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 16, 2019) — On Saturday, the mother of three children who were legally adopted by her parents through the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) over the course of several years informed us that in September, she and her husband were…
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Atty. Vincent W. Davis Discusses California Child-Protective Services
WHAT RIGHTS DOES AN ACCUSED PARENT HAVE? by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 7, 2019) — In Friday night’s broadcast of “The Secret: How to Fight Child Protective Services and Win,” host and Atty. Vincent W. Davis of the Law Offices of Vincent W. Davis & Associates of Southern California hosted two guests specializing in child-protective service…
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Parents of Three Children Taken by Los Angeles DCFS Enjoy Recent Visits
“IN ALL I AM BLESSED TO SEE THEM” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 5, 2019) — An Alabama couple whose three children were placed with their maternal grandparents despite no substantiated allegations of abuse or neglect against their parents were able to speak in person with the children on two occasions last week, their mother, Kanika…
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Is Government Destroying Our Most Precious Resource?
CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING, BUT WHERE IS THEIR “#METOO” MOVEMENT? by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 5, 2018) — On Tuesday, someone using a “US Senate” ISP accessed three different articles about a Tennessee mother who lost custody of both of her daughters in what she described to us as a web of corruption, deceit, and unconstitutional acts…
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Los Angeles County Taxpayers Fund Hefty Pay Raises, Promotions for Child “Welfare” Employees
BUT ARE THEY DESERVED? by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 11, 2018) — Publicly-available data shows that virtually all social workers and supervisors involved in a case originating in March 2016 with the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) have received pay raises and promotions funded by county taxpayers. The case, encompassing mother “Michelle…
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Los Angeles Mother Loses Appeal for Custody Review of Three-Year-Old Daughter
“I REALLY HAVE NO RECOURSE” by Sharon Rondeau (May 28, 2018) — Earlier this month, two appeals filed by an attorney representing “Michelle Robinson” in the Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District in Los Angeles were reviewed, with the court affirming the dependency court’s award of custody to the child’s father and dismissing…
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Parents of Three Children Taken by DCFS Enjoy “Bittersweet” Reunion
“I KNOW I DID EVERYTHING I COULD” by Sharon Rondeau (May 5, 2018) — In a stunning development, the mother of three children set to be adopted by her parents in Southern California reported on Thursday that she and her husband were able to visit with their children after two and one-half years of no…
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“Terminated” Restraining Order Renewed for Five More Years
AND EXPANDED TO INCLUDE ADULT CHILDREN OF LOS ANGELES MOTHER by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 26, 2018) — A hearing on Monday morning at the Torrance, CA Superior Court, Family Law division resulted in a restraining order issued in December 2015 said to have been canceled by another jurist 18 months ago being renewed for an…
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Los Angeles Mother to Face Trial for Allegedly Sending “Annoying” and “Threatening” Communications
DEFENDANT CLAIMS COMPLAINT “RETALIATORY” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 27, 2018) — A Los Angeles mother who recently discovered that a “Termination of Order” apparently intended to cancel a restraining order and custody award in her favor was never officially entered into the record will face trial on Tuesday morning for allegedly violating California Penal Code…
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Case Against Los Angeles DCFS Docketed at U.S. Supreme Court
“WE’VE FOUGHT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 19, 2018) — On March 5, a petition for a writ of certiorari regarding a case decided in California’s Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District involving the Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS) was docketed at the U.S. Supreme Court. The…
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How Can a Restraining Order Be Active and Canceled at the Same Time?
“TERMINATION” ORDER, NOT PART OF OFFICIAL RECORD, IS RELIED UPON BY LAW ENFORCEMENT by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 6, 2018) — On February 26, The Post & Email expounded on a situation involving a Los Angeles mother granted a restraining order in December 2015 against her youngest child’s father which she believed was violated on at…
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Has a Restraining Order Been Terminated or Not?
COURT ORDER APPEARS, BUT WITHOUT A SOURCE by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 22, 2018) — Last Thursday, The Post & Email published an article reporting on an October vehicular incident between the parents of a three-year-old girl taken by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) from the mother in March 2016 and…
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Appeal of Adoption Orders Filed with California Supreme Court
PARENTS VOW TO “NEVER STOP FIGHTING” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 16, 2017) — On August 21, a petition for rehearing in the case of two children ordered to be adopted by the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) was denied by California’s Second Appellate Court, Division Four, with the parents, Roosevelt and…
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Parents Petition Appeals Court to Halt Adoption of Third Child
AT HANDS OF DCFS, JUDGE MARGUERITE DOWNING by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 14, 2017) — The parents of three children scheduled to be adopted by their maternal grandparents have just filed an appeal brief to the Second Appellate District, Division Four in Los Angeles in the case of their third child. As The Post & Email…
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Child Custody Goes from “No Case” to “Adoption” Track in Eight Weeks
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 8, 2017) — A father and mother whose legal address is in Alabama but whose three children were placed with their maternal grandparents in California by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) are continuing their efforts to overturn the decisions of the Edelman…
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Los Angeles Family Court Declines to Change Toddler’s Custody Arrangement
“IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT ME” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 4, 2017) — Last Wednesday, a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, Torrance Family Court, Department J took place in the case of “Michelle Robinson,” who lost custody of her toddler daughter in March 2016 after Los Angeles DCFS received a referral for protection…
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Los Angeles Spousal-Abuse Trial Continued to Next Week
WILL BEGIN JUNE 27 by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 22, 2017) — A trial for a Los Angeles mother charged with “spousal abuse” which was expected to commence on Thursday morning was continued to Tuesday, June 27, based on her public defender’s lack of availability. Early Thursday afternoon on Thursday, but late morning on the West…
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Mother of Toddler Taken by Child-Protective Agency to Face Trial on “Spousal Abuse” Charge
BUT WHERE IS THE VIDEO? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 20, 2017) — On Thursday, a Los Angeles mother whose very young daughter was taken by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in March of last year and placed with her non-custodial father will face trial on a charge of “spousal abuse.” The hearing…
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Is the Edelman Children’s Court a Charade?
CONTESTED CUSTODY HEARING A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS ONE by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 26, 2017) — On Tuesday evening, The Post & Email spoke with the mother in a Los Angeles DCFS child-dependency case concerning the outcome of a “contested” hearing that day in the Edelman Children’s Court to determine the future of her 28-month-old daughter.…
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Contested Hearing Will Not Include Visit Between Mother and Child
HOW ASSIDUOUSLY DID THEY SEEK A MONITOR? by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 25, 2017) — A hearing to take place on Tuesday to contest the decision of the Edelman Children’s Court in Monterey Park, CA to award legal and physical custody of a toddler to her father will not provide the opportunity for the mother to…