So I have a question and am hoping someone will know the answer or be able to lead me in the right direction.

My boyfriend’s sister lives in Colorado, we are in Illinois. She lost custody of all of her children early last year. They were taken from their dad while living in a car in Arizona (she reported it), but were not given back to her because she was required to prove she was fit to take them, as she was still married to their father and there was a long line of police involvement in their home.

Dad went to court, did what was requested and required and had been given the kids back. He has court on the 19th of this month to obtain full custody. She misses court, refuses drug tests, refuses treatment, refuses counseling. Is not even allowed to have any communication with the children now, per judges orders until she does what is asked of her. Well, dad took the kids to visit her and the police ended up being called so he was arrested on various charges and the grandparents had to go pick up the children.

Custody of the children is going to end up being given back to the grandparents when they go back to court. Dad will once again have to do everything required to obtain custody. Mom should also be doing the same, but like I stated, she has failed to even try.

So my question, we also found out from the kids’ dad that mom is pregnant with another baby (he is not the father). She disclosed the information to the case worker, as well as to him. They are divorced now btw, so he has absolutely no ties to this new baby. With her losing custody, being on drugs, etc, it’s highly likely that she will have this baby taken from her at birth. So our plan is to be prepared to step in and take guardianship if need be. The challenging part is that it’s two different states.

Her lack of trying to fight for the kids she has may end up being in our favor if we want to bring the baby back to Illinois. I’m supposed to contact her case worker (the grandma of the other children put us in contact with each other), and we will kind of develop a plan to have set just incase she is unable to keep her baby come October when she gives birth. But the grandma advised that it would be beneficial to find out information on how they will handle it being an inter-state situation. When she took the older kids, she had to live in Colorado for a month before she was granted permission to move them back to her home in Wyoming and have the case transferred there. So I’m hoping we would not have to do the same.

Sorry this is long, we were informed of all of this yesterday. Mom has yet to disclose to any one in our family that she’s pregnant. But she also lies constantly about the situation with losing her other children so I’m or surprised.