Legal Question in Family Law in Virginia

My son's father and I just recently moved in together. we are not married, and he is not on the birth certificate. We had someone make an anonymous tip about my son's father that we needed to be drug tested. I agreed and passed no issue, to attempt to make the process as simple as possible. He refused out of stubbornness due to him knowing who called and it being because him and the person who called were arguing. CPS told him he must leave the house and have no contact with our son until he complied with them and took the drug test. He is taking it tomorrow and we know it will come back clean with no issue. Will my family be on cps' records for forever now due to him? Can they come back and check him later on or do a home check since the issue happened?


Asked on 7/13/18, 12:39 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Who, knows? (in answer to your last two questions) which in my opinion is

reason enough to resist these kinds of privacy intrusions on the part of an

agency such as Child Protective Services (CPS) which appears to rely from time to time on "tipsters" fabricating charges for vengeful reasons as apparently in your situation and possibly without any evidence which reaches anywhere near

the evidentiary threshholds required for probable cause or even

reasonable suspicion.

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Answered on 7/13/18, 7:58 am


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