Legal Question in Family Law in Louisiana

Re: My cousins children are in foster care

The mere fact that one child was taken does not mean the next one is taken. The first child was taken because the mother had "no home" for the child, not because she was "too young." A period of about 10 months elapsed between the first taken and the 2nd child's birth, so your cousin has been given the opportunity to work a case plan. At the one year mark, the state will probably want to terminate her parental rights to the first child. Contact OCS in Many, Louisiana, immediately and volunteer to take your 2 younger cousins. They will do a home study on your home and you may be successful in getting the children into your custody. Start out by calling the Alexandria office of Office of Community Services (OCS), and tell them the whole story. They will probably give you the number to the worker handling the case, and you can begin the process of taking custody of your cousins. It appears that the older cousin had no home and then got pregnant which means she may not have been with her mother or was having to live with someone she did not want to. I am glad that you are willing to take the children and assist in keeping them in the family, but you must move quickly.