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    Fighting CPS in Oklahoma:

    You Need an Attorney To Fight CPS

    When CPS gets involved, parents almost always give up some control over family life. Even in an easily resolved child-welfare check, parents are forced to make choices.

    Losing control in an important family matter can drive worry, trigger anxiety and dampen demeanor. Wrongful accusations and misguided investigations make parents reluctant to talk to DHS caseworkers. Yet a cooperative, confident demeanor during a CPS investigation can influence caseworkers’ assessments.

    Tension between a cooperative effort and an adversarial approach can work against both. That’s why you need a CPS defense lawyer when Oklahoma Child Protective Services gets involved with your family.

    Because attorneys who fight CPS and win know how, when and why to challenge Child Protective Services actions, CPS lawyers can put up a fight while you do what parents do best — care for the children. With an Oklahoma CPS defense lawyer on your side, you take control of your child’s DHS case.

    Many Child Protective Services matters involve home inspections and parent interviews. When you get a lawyer for a Child Protective Services case, your lawyer can prepare you for the process. You can work on demonstrating parental care and concern while your CPS defense lawyer charts a strategy for a successful outcome.

    Free Consultation: Oklahoma CPS Lawyers

    If you are involved with Oklahoma DHS Child Protective Services in a child welfare investigation, a show-cause hearing, a deprived child adjudication, a termination proceeding, a permanency proceeding or any other Oklahoma Department of Human Services or child welfare matter, you need a child welfare lawyer on your side. Contact an Oklahoma DHS investigations defense attorney for a confidential consultation and case assessment. Call Call CPS Investigation Defense at (918) 276-2444 today to schedule a free initial consultation.

  • What CPS Can and Cannot Do

    Child Protective Services Can:

    • Advocate for your child’s best interests
    • Interview your child without you being present
    • Show up at your home unannounced
    • Get a court order to enter your home and interview your child
    • Try to get your child placed with someone you want the child placed with
    • Deny the placement you prefer
    • Promise that they’re going to allow visitation
    • Limit visitation and require supervision during visitation
    • Work with law enforcement to investigate someone who is maliciously reporting you to DHS
    • Guarantee that a particular qualified person can be allowed to petition for adoption
    • Agree not to object to a guardianship
    • Bring up the fact that you aren’t working your Individualized Service Plan in court during your reviews

    Child Protective Services Cannot:

    • Advocate for your interests as a parent
    • interview your child without notifying you that they did so
    • Show up and forcibly go into your home and interview your child without a court order or exigent circumstances
    • Promise you that an initial placement is going to remain the child’s placement
    • Promise you at the outset a placement will be available for your child
    • Promise that your child is going to be placed in the same county you live in
    • Give you the name of the person who reported you
    • Guarantee the people that have your children will be the people that get to adopt your children if you relinquish your parental rights,
    • Unilaterally, own their own, deny visitation between you and your child without a court order or exigent circumstances.
    • Agree to a guardianship
    • Force you to take a drug test
    • Make you actually work an Individualized Service Plan
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    Oklahoma CPS Investigation Defense Law Firm
    Leslie Ellis Kissinger, Esq.
    500 W. 7th St., Suite 272
    Tulsa, Ok. 74119
    Phone: (918) 276-2444

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    Don't fight the Oklahoma Dept. of Human Services on your own. The Tulsa, Oklahoma law office of parental rights lawyer Leslie Ellis Kissinger provides CPS defense representation to parents and foster parents involved in DHS Child Protective Services matters throughout Oklahoma including the following Oklahoma counties: Tulsa, Cherokee, Wagoner, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Creek, Rogers, Mayes, Delaware, Ottawa, Craig, Washington, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Payne, Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole, Hughes, Pittsburg, Latimer, La Flore, Haskell, Sequoya and Adair.