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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can call the Bar Association in your jurisdiction and ask for referral to a family law lawyer.  
The local school system may require that someone have guardianship in order to enroll her in school.
Lastly: beating with a wooden spoon cause long lasting trauma.  I'm sorry she experienced that.  [/quote]

My mother has taken over (via email, she'll be back in the country on Sunday night and able to help more directly) research on everything we will need to know/do if we have to pursue some sort of legal option on Monday, instead of a happy ending where cousin's parents stop acting like this and welcome their child back home again. I know that finding lawyers specializing in children's and family law issues in both cousin's home jurisdiction and both mom's and mine (because we've not yet decided who will seek guardianship if it comes to that) is an item on the list.

We're going to try the option provided for in the laws of my cousin's home state where parents, teen children (I think it's 14+, cousin definitely qualifies) and another adult relative who are in agreement on the course of action can petition the court for a legal guardianship change to the relative fairly easily and without CPS. Figuring out how to navigate that will be why we want the lawyers, but I know my mother understands more about the process than I do and seems to think it's a reasonable option. That is, if cousin's parents want to take that path. Basically, that seems to be our "middle" but also most likely scenario... best case would be her able to go home again to loving parents who just had a freak out over big news, then the voluntary guardianship option, but in the worst case we're prepared to involve CPS if her parents still seem like an unsafe option but no longer agree to just let her live with a relative.[/quote]

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