A CAPIAS (Latin legal term) is a writ issued by a court, ordering the Sheriff of a county to seize a person to bring that person before the court. It is equivalent to a warrant for arrest. I prepared this order and asked the judge to sign it, ordering the arrest of this father.
// For relatives or caretakers that have been awarded temporary custody of a child or children while the parents are in treatment or incarcerated: What to expect when you go to Family Court Services: Whenever there is a question for the court to decide concerning custody and possession of children, the court will order a [...]
// There are several phases to adoption from another country, including Haiti: Judicial or administrative proceedings in Haiti to adjudicate the child an orphan Granting of the child a Haitian passport Granting of a Visa to enter the US by the US Consulate Adoption of the child in the United States in the state where [...]
// Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. I set a personal goal for myself of entering and completing a 5K walk (notice I said WALK, not RACE) by the end of the year. This is after I met my personal challenge of 10 minutes on the cross trainer and ½ mile on the treadmill, [...]
Fathers: Bad things can happen to good fathers – and their children Fathers are in a particularly vulnerable position in Texas. I have seen cases where a father has been diligently going to work every day, largely unaware and oblivious of the fact that his wife is slowly turning the children away from him and [...]
I will begin this advice by reminding you what you already know: If you are dealing with a situation of sexual abuse of a child in Texas, you must, by law, report the suspected abuse to the DFPS – Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. There is a hotline in Texas- 1-800-252-5400. Or you [...]
Many people remember their grandparents – and see grandparents today – as the emotional anchor of their extended families. It seems intuitively logical that grandparents should have the right, legally, to step in and intervene when they see their grandchildren in situations of abuse, neglect and worse. Drug use of adult children is all too [...]
