CPS Is Investigating My Co Parent: Can They Take My Kids?
CPS Is Investigating My Co Parent: Can They Take My Kids?
Can CPS investigate you even if you're not the person being accused?
The answer may surprise you.
If Child Protective Services is investigating your spouse, your child's other parent, or someone living in their household, there's a good chance your actions and decisions will be scrutinized as well. In this video, Michigan family law attorney Jim Kraayeveld explains why CPS investigations often extend beyond the person accused and how that could affect your custody rights, parenting time, and relationship with your children.
You'll learn:
✅ Why CPS may investigate both parents
✅ What "failure to protect" means under Michigan law
✅ How living with an accused spouse can impact your case
✅ What happens if your ex is exposing your children to dangerous individuals
✅ When you may need to return to court to protect your children
✅ Why speaking with an attorney early is critical
For more than 30 years, Jim Kraayeveld has helped Michigan families navigate difficult custody disputes, CPS investigations, and family law matters throughout West Michigan.
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Transcript
You find out CPS is investigating your spouse or your ex. They're gonna investigate you, too? And is that gonna impact your relationship with your kids, like you're gonna lose custody or parenting time? Who knows? Maybe. I'll try to answer that a little bit more fully in this video. I'm Jim Kraayeveld, Founding Attorney at Kraayeveld Family Law.
Been doing this for over 30 years, and yes, if CPS is going to go and do an investigation into your spouse and you're still living with them, they're probably gonna be investigating you, too. For example, was there abuse? Did you know about it? Did you protect your kids? Did you fail to protect your kids? Those are all relevant issues that you need to discuss with an attorney immediately upon finding out that CPS is becoming involved, because it might impact you and your ability to keep your kids.
If it's an ex and you know that they're dating someone who's either physically violent or is on the sex offenders list, and they're putting your kids at risk, and you allow the kids to go there, you failed to protect, and that could impact your right to keep your kids. Again, that's why you need to know your rights and your obligations, and what you should be doing and should not be doing.
Now, if you find out through a credible source, CPS maybe even calls you to find out information, A, you should have an attorney present or at least know what you're going to tell them or not tell them, but you find out that they're investigating something that you didn't know about previously, this may be an opportunity where you have to go to court.
And if you're in the process of a divorce action or you have a custody order in place, that's the time to go back to court, and your attorney can file whatever papers. It might be an ex-parte motion. It may be a regular motion. Again, you're going to at least meet and find out what your strategy is going to be to say, "Wait a minute. I need to protect my kids from a really bad situation." So, whatever the facts might be or the situation you find yourself in, you can always find answers here. Subscribe. Follow our channel, and if you ever have questions, you can always contact our firm, and one of our team members will be able to help you and give you good, clear legal advice. Until next time.