Legal Question in Family Law in Michigan

My fiances mother passed away when he was 16 yrs old. He has 2 younger sisters and 1 young brother. After his mom passed away his aunt got custody of the 3 younger kids( because my fiance couldn't because he was only 16yrs old). she has had custody of these kids for 6 yrs. The aunt also has 2 kids that are her biological kids.

The 3 adopted kids have been abused mentally and physically by the aunt(adoptive mother),uncle(adoptive father), and grandmother since they have had them. Some of the abuse that friends & family members,my fiance and I have seen over the years and still to this day is making them eat their own vomit, breaking their collar bone and making them hold cans of food over their head for 3 weeks(while she was in pain crying) with that arm,Screaming in

the childs face "You're just being a F****** baby, and quit crying!") before taking her to the er, picking them up by the throat while hitting them in the back of the head too(because they didn't do something right), keeping them out of school to clean the whole house(including the aunt and uncles 2 biological kids room), like dishes(they will make them do dishes til 2 or 3 AM on school days too), washing & drying & folding & taking care of EVERYONES laundry including the 2 biological kids and all adults, walking their 2 biological kids, and the adults dogs(over 4 dogs!), cooking meals for the WHOLE family,pulling 1 of the little girls hair out of her head when the child has severe nerve problems because how they treat her and mental problems since she was born, they scream in their face saying "you 3 kids are the most stupidest and dumbest kids we have ever seen" when all 3 of them have mental and nerve problems(and its not their fault, they were born with mental problems and the nerve problems are from being abused by them), and ALOT more.

Their 2 biological kids are not abused at all, do no cleaning, get what ever they want, skip school a lot so they can have fun and play (the parents and grandmother allow them too), they have their own rooms, they get mall clothing every month( with the money they get from taking care of the 3 kids) but the 3 kids wear goodwill and every christmas their clothing and gifts are from goodwill or yard sale stuff , run the streets all night(even on school night), their parents do both their homework so they can pass in school(if the school gave them a test they would be grades below what their in right now.) 1 of her kids his younger then the oldest of the 3 and the other is the same age as the oldest of the 3.

Every time friends & family & members,my fiance and I speak up to them about how the 3 kids are treated, they won't allow us to talk and see the 3 kids ( my fiance's 2 sisters and brother)

anymore.They say "Their our kids and we can do whatever we want with our kids!. since she has had these kids they have never had a room, even tho they get paid over $1000 a month to take care of them. Their treated very very badly and its so disgusting what they do to these kids.

Everyone in the family talks about how bad those 3 kids are treated but they wont do anything about it because they are scared that they will be put in foster care or that they won't be able to see them anymore.

We've called CPS and told them what disgusting things that they have done to these 3 kids, told them about the abuse physically and mentally, that they have never had a room and they have always slept on cots ( through out the house), their under weight because their only allowed 3 servings of food a day and if they want more food to eat at dinner/breakfast/lunch their not allowed plus after school they do their own homework then they have to clean up the whole yard and after that's done they can play outside (in the heat)until its bedtime but their only allowed to come in the house 1 time for 1 little glass of water(NO REFILLS and their not allowed to have ice cubes at all) until its bedtime (and they can become very dehydrated because of that).

Their 2 children are over weight and can sit in the AC Doing NOTHING at all but watching tv. (while there mom,daddy, and grandma do their homework) Cps went over their and didn't talk to the 3 kids in school separately before going to the house to talk to the parents( when my fiance and I told them that if they went to they parents first then they will tell those 3 kids everything to say and threaten to beat them if they don't listen and they will tell them (lies) that they will take them away to foster care and they will never be able to see any of their family again! and ect...." CPS did nothing! I thought that CPS is their too protect children being abused. Those kids will never say anything now because they went to the adoptive parents first.CPS told us that as long as the kids have a bed ( no matter were it is) its ok. The CPS worker also said that the kids didnt say anything! (My fiance and I told him that if he went to the parents first then the 3 kids won't talk, he didn't listen!)

A few years after the aunt got custody of the 3 kids,the oldest of the 3 kids went to the school counselor and told her "My mommy sleeps in the bed with her boyfriend and my Daddy sleeps on the couch in the same house. Also mommy(adoptive mother), Daddy(adoptive father), and grandmother had the biological daughter sit on the couch and told her little sister to sit between the biological daughter legs. The 3 adults kept on asking her little sister

"why she was pulling her hair out?", and my sister was crying and screaming saying "I don't know, Please stop!". Every time my sister said "I don't know, please stop!" they would tell the biological daughter to pull more hair out.That lasted more then 1 hour.My fiance and I seen it too."

When the oldest girl got home from school that day she got beaten badly with belts,was grounded for along time for telling the truth and the mother told her to tell the school counselor and anyone else that asks that "she was lying about the hair thing". Earlier that day When the girl told her this, the counselor already called her adoptive mother and asked her "whats going on? She told the adoptive mother what the oldest girl of the 3 said to her that day. Later that

evening the counselor sent CPS out their too check it out. CPS and the Police told the adoptive mother that she has to choose which man she wants to stay with because she had her husband sleeping on the couch and her boyfriend (she met on the internet) sleeping with her up stairs in a room.They asked the girl in private about what she told the counselor earlier that day. But by then her mom already had beaten her with a belt and told her what she had to say if anyone asked "She was lying about the whole hair thing". so they never investigated again. SO SINCE THEN THE MOTHER WON"T LET THEM TALK TO THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR! My fiance and I have told the 3 kids before that" if they have anything to talk about they can talk to the school counselor because that's what they are their for." and because we told them that we aren't allowed to see them! Cps won't do nothing.

My fiance(their brother) and I would love to get custody of these kids because they are sooo badly abused and neglected.We want to show them love and caring. And you never see these kids happy they are always so scared of getting beat. They have NEVER been to the movies, bowling, and ect.. but her 2 kids have every week. Even tho their 2 kids have been in juvie for fight, pulling out knives and threating to kill kids in school with it , and ect..

Is their anyway to get custody or visitation rights??? We have asked FIA/DHS to help us and they say theirs nothing to do. NO child should go through what these 3 kids go through. my fiance and I could go on forever talking about what these messed up people do to these 3 kids because whats said on this page is just the tip of the iceburg!

IS THERE ANYWAY TO GET CUSTODY OR VISITATION RIGHTS OF MY FIANCES 3 SISTERS AND BROTHER????(ALL OF THEM HAVE THE SAME MOTHER BIRTH MOTHER) PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! HELP US AND GIVE US AN ANSWER AND TELL US WHERE WE GO TO START IT! IF WE CAN. THANK-YOU

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