Part Four - Crazy CPS Case - Judge Sala

[@laura-js5yb]

I really feel that Brooks and McFarland are twins! What entitled bullies!!

[@AuntCathyPooh]

Judge Sala's tiiiny grin at Dad's last answer to Mr. Brooks was priceless 😊

[@lisajeter9511]

I’m so glad to see the Judge to take a stand and make the HARD decisions for the Boys. If the Boys really wanted to make a difference they would be be busting butt in school. That shows maturity on their part!

[@HankyPankyMom]

The Dept is between a rock and a hard place on this one. They petitioned the court to take jurisdiction of the 2 boys and to remove them from mom and place with dad. (They really didn’t have a choice based on mom’s drug use/arrests). The dept knew at that time there was no divorce filing or custody order and they took dad at his word that he would take care of filing those papers. He didn’t and the court/dept really has no recourse other than to file for termination of parental rights of both parents based on length of case and failure of both parents to provide permanency for these boys. That would leave 2 teenage boys in the foster care system where they are also unlikely to find permanency and stability. It’s a no win situation for these kids. If mom is clean and housing is the only issue preventing reunification, what is the solution?? She’s working for minimum wage and will have to support herself and 2 teenage boys. How on earth would that even be possible???

[@OnTropolis]

They can't terminate dad, he's not even a party or under the jurisdiction of the court. Grandpa and guardianship is the best option

[@HankyPankyMom]

@@OnTropolis I sent my message before seeing the end! Totally agree!!

[@texasproud8822]

The mom wants someone to give her housing so she can continue the life she likes but sadly that won’t help the boys.

[@nb-user25]

Poor kids, neither parent is stepping up to give them stability and a consistent education.

[@patriciaevans5906]

I absolutely agree about Brooks just getting up & walking around court…it’s rude just like he is and Judge Sal’s never says anything to him no matter what he says or does…she just kinda shakes her head and laughs as she did this time. He does what he wants. He should have already been retired. Judge shouldn’t condone this type of behavior & definitely should not let it go & laugh at him. He’s arrogant & condescending & rude.

[@annelynch9217]

I don’t know why he wouldn’t have signed divorce papers. Time to take out the trash, buddy.

[@lisajeter9511]

I think Moms going to jail today.

[@CeceliaHill-vt5jd]

I hate it when people place camera so it looks like they are looking down a hole

[@lisajeter9511]

That because youre not suppose to get involved with people from AA or Rehab.

[@lisajeter9511]

Shame on you Dad, all these kids have is you to depend on. You’re failing them as well!

[@JudithLyonz1977]

Brooks lost his damn mind and i loved it.

[@terriwilson4984]

Give this young Lady some Floss!!!!

[@lisajeter9511]

Mom does need to be reminded her parental rights could be terminated permanently. If she doesn’t start to make progress soon.

[@lisajeter9511]

Drug charges will keep you from housing every day of the week!

[@kirstenstrobel4387]

What is the projected retirement date for Mr. Brooks? I’m not sure if I can wait till then! The man makes me a little crazy, and not in a good way. Even when he occasionally states a gem.

[@rosamariamendoza1466]

I think he ( Brooks) isn't corrected by Judge Salas in is because she knows what's he's about

[@patriciaevans5906]

@@rosamariamendoza1466probably true but I don’t think she’s doing her job…she’s supposed to be in charge of her courtroom and not Brooks…she lets him get by with everything. He’s so rude and disrespectful.

[@lisajeter9511]

Where did the kids sleep when they were with the mom? Mom acts like it’s someone elses responsibility for her to find housing.

[@diannetinsley3926]

Dad needs to take the boys to the park to play basketball, not just send them.

[@maryhain4205]

Mr Brooks brings such snark and attitude and it is so unnecessary and insulting to all concerned. Hope he retires soon...

[@patriciaevans5906]

Positively agree…he’s disrespectful & a huge pain but Sala allows him to do what he wants.

[@lisajeter9511]

Mom knows if she misses a drug test it’s presumed Positive. I think she’s gotten comfortable without her kids by now

[@annelynch9217]

That guy claims to be an attorney, but he doesn’t understand why this man won’t sign divorce papers that he’s not being allowed to read? She wants him to sign divorce papers that say she gets custody of those kids when she can’t even take care of them. They don’t understand why he wouldn’t sign those? I don’t care if she’s got five months sober, five months is not long enough. Those kids are teenagers . She should’ve been sober for as long as it’s been since the day the first one was born, she wasn’t and as a result, she’s got a daughter who’s pregnant and willing to live with a man who abuses her because it’s better than living with her mother. She’s perpetuating the cycle, and all three of these kids are already at a life deficit BECAUSE OF HER! If they ever give those kids back to her, will be watching these hearings in the future, but those kids will be fighting for their own children. This cycle is never gonna end if they don’t get those kids away from their mother. Every one of these people saying “these boys want to be with their mother” is an idiot. Those boys don’t want to be with their mother, they want to be with their friends. However, they were getting in trouble with those same friends and therefore they should not be accommodated on that. I’m sorry, but there’s a reason why adults make decisions for children. It’s because children aren’t experienced enough to make the right ones sometimes.

[@Lass_-hm7ly]

The parents need parenting classes! Mother seems manipulative, Dad seems like he's trying and understands teens but doesn't know how to handle them. They really need to stay with Grandpa and Dad. The boys lawyer is young and has no clue. Those boys want back with their Mom so they can have more freedom and do what they want.

[@Fairysarecu0e67]

So is the dad not seeking custody? It just doesn’t sound like it to me.

[@lisajeter9511]

Dad needs to get these kids into extra curricular activities after school. They do have league teams. These kids need to make friends where they’re living. Someone needs to get out of these kids ears by letting them think they can come back and live with their Mom. She doesn’t have a home for them to come back too.

[@CeceliaHill-vt5jd]

I wish dad could sit down always moving around

[@annelynch9217]

I wholeheartedly disagree with the OP statement that she is no-show for drug test because she’s working. She’s not asking for them to be rescheduled because she’s working, and providing a schedule that proves that, she’s just not showing up. At the same time, she’s not showing up for her NA or AA meetings. That is highly suspect and looks very suspicious. Which wouldn’t surprise me if she was not sober. I don’t believe she has five months, a job and she’s got a life together. She has no money in savings, but when she was an active coke addict and had no job, she always found money to pay for drugs. So now that she’s supposedly not buying drugs, what is she doing with her money? I’m not buying what she’s selling.

[@emmasurf8109]

18:30 Your comment on Brooks, yeah I think the judge has just given up on anyone correcting him and it's easier to just laugh at him behind her hand

[@lisajeter9511]

This Mom has a lot of barriers, she can’t follow any rules. Not to mention she can’t return the kids when she is suppose too which amounts to kidnapping for a lack of better wording. Mom shouldn’t even be a consideration at this moment.

[@lisajeter9511]

She was working two jobs, is that why she missed her drug tests as well?

[@lisajeter9511]

Dads going to lose with that one statement! Mom gets them if it comes to a parent or grandparent. Unless Mom is completely UNFIT! Which sounds like she can’t take them

[@jasminemarceau861]

I’m a foster mom, so I can be biased, but I’m not sure a divorce would be better, it just mean another court procedure that will take time and drags on. What I don’t like is that we have no idea about the paternal grandfather. He was « approved » and that’s it. If I recall earlier proceeding, the father was supposed to live there. He’s obviously not. How is this stepping up to park them at your fathers, and living your life with you new gf and her kids? So, ok they have a roof and food, but they are not happy. I would agree with mister Brooks, maybe this is a case where they would have been better served being put in a foster home. But I guess, they might be too old and would have end up in a group home, which would have been worst. So sad, how this is in the best interest of those kids?

[@karendeakin9628]

I’m sure ms Bergerac attention is not fully engaged with this hearing we’ve had eating and yawning not best behaviour for attorney

[@patriciaevans5906]

What’s wrong with Ariel today…she doesn’t seem to be real interested in today’s hearing…

[@lisajeter9511]

Whomever Lenawee is certainly isn’t following up as he should be. But he’s quick to say how well she is doing. I’m not sure he can make such glowing reports about mom and have so little of the other important information. Incompetent comes to mind for me!

[@amyhunter7401]

Why would dad need to divorce mom to kerp his kids? So long as he is not allowing mom to have unapproved contact, why is that an issue?

[@OnTropolis]

Because he needs a custody order before they can close this case and the orders disappear

[@CeceliaHill-vt5jd]

I have seen judge Sala put Mr Brooks in his place

[@lauraa.e.5008]

Oh, please. Ariel Berger could've gone off screen while she picked her teeth and ate whatever she pulled out. Lacking etiquette.

[@stanhin]

She looks like she can't be bothered with this hearing.

[@mariespalding2327]

@@stanhinI have seen her on a few and it seems like she cant be bothered with any hearings honestly. I dont care for her.

[@patriciaevans5906]

Absolutely agree…she acts bored & uninterested….she acts like this quite a bit.

[@CeceliaHill-vt5jd]

Does dad have a speech impediment?

[@CeceliaHill-vt5jd]

I don't trust mom at all if you want what best for your children it may mean letting them go 😮

[@CeceliaHill-vt5jd]

Favorite answer I don't know 😕

[@seanwexler8051]

Also on not doing well in math because his last school was more advanced, I don't buy it. Math is a subject that continuously expands while making constant use of previous topics. You don't really go backwards in math. The exception would be specialty math subjects, like geometry or trigonometry. There are gaps in the math pathway where you after learning those, you may go through a semester or 4 where you make little use, then it becomes necessary again in calculus and beyond. But you don't go from algebra back to pre-algebra and struggle. "Why don't you get your homework done?" "Umm, I forget" Glad my kid isn't the only one with such bad short term memory specific to things they don't want to do...I swear, it's an epidemic with minors...😂

[@lisajeter9511]

I’m sorry sometimes you have to make the hard decisions for the kids and what’s best for them. Someone must be in these kids ears leading them to believe they can come back to their familiar area to live. Although they have no home to live in where they’re familiar with. If these kids are doing okay and going to school, you leave them where they’re at for the time being. Kids don’t run the show even if that’s what they’ve been use to doing with their Mom.

[@maryholden3136]

Dad isn't a prince either. It appears to me that all 3 of the kids involved in this case pretty much raised themselves and each other. The issues for the boys became more pressing when the older sister became pregnant and moved out

[@CeceliaHill-vt5jd]

Please Ms Berger quit picking your teeth

[@phyllistaylor5634]

With all these lawyers assigned, couldnt one of them draft a divorce decree??? I know its not technically their job but it would help things along!! Both these parents suck and the kids are in the middle!

[@OnTropolis]

Agree...it would take them five minutes of copy and paste

[@annelynch9217]

I’m sorry, but this mother, trying to make the father look like a bad parent, is comical. She lost her kids because she’s a cocaine addict and didn’t choose her kids over her cocaine for several months, and even that is questionable. So she can bitch and moan all she wants about the father, but he still leaps and bounds above her as a parent. She makes it sound like she’s a victim because she can’t find housing because of her past, her criminal criminal record, and her credit. All of which are her own fault. So she’s not a victim of anything except herself. Unfortunately, that intern makes the kids victims of her too. So she can complain all she wants about the father, not meeting her halfway or not filing his divorce papers, what he’s not doing is putting his children’s lives in danger, she was and possibly still would. She makes it sound like being sober for five months earns her an award. How long has she had kids? How long has her son been medically frail? Five months is nothing and she has a lot more to prove. If there is any hope of those kids not ending up exactly like their mother, they will not give her custody of them. Perhaps visitation, but not custody. Her visitation should also have to be out of Adriene because she’s already proven she gets into trouble there and so do her kids

[@lisajeter9511]

The Judge should refuse to drop it!

[@lisajeter9511]

As a mom that’s raised her kids and for some time was a single Mom. Never lived off the system, I’m thoroughly disappointed in Dad even though he’s not abused or done anything really illegal with the kids.

[@irenekegel5988]

Ariel seems so unprofessional …..why is she on here and collects $$$$$$ for doing nothing.?…Her client is on the stand and she does not ask any questions, nothing ..watch the other lawyer asking many question to get him to look way better . I would not want her as my lawyer ever ..yawning and looking bored …

[@lisajeter9511]

Isn’t the Dad getting paid through the State to take care of the kids or not?

[@maryholden3136]

No

[@North_West1]

No

[@ShoeChic5441]

I don't know why I thought these kids would be better off with the "dad". I don't understand why he wanted them other than getting out of child support/jail. And he is smiling like he is a great job

[@OnTropolis]

They're better off than if they'd stayed in Adrian tho. They were going to end up in trouble and following in mom's footsteps.

[@Jamcrackerr]

Click bait. Ok, okaaaay! I thought someone was getting arrested.in court. Perhaps I read it wrong. Whatevs. Carry on.

[@OnTropolis]

😂 ok.. it's just a case we've been following for like a year but sure

[@HankyPankyMom]

Go away!

[@DevilOnlyKnitsLace]

It's an update on a long-standing case that's come quicker than any Hunger Games or Dune sequel. But, if you don't know, you don't know.

[@AllegedlyMaybe]

This is the conclusion thus far.... there's def been a mom arrested at court in this case

[@annelynch9217]

That guy claims to be an attorney, but he doesn’t understand why this man won’t sign divorce papers that he’s not being allowed to read? She wants him to sign divorce papers that say she gets custody of those kids when she can’t even take care of them. They don’t understand why he wouldn’t sign those? I don’t care if she’s got five months sober, five months is not long enough. Those kids are teenagers . She should’ve been sober for as long as it’s been since the day the first one was born, she wasn’t and as a result, she’s got a daughter who’s pregnant and willing to live with a man who abuses her because it’s better than living with her mother. She’s perpetuating the cycle, and all three of these kids are already at a life deficit BECAUSE OF HER! If they ever give those kids back to her, will be watching these hearings in the future, but those kids will be fighting for their own children. This cycle is never gonna end if they don’t get those kids away from their mother.