i am in need of someone to help me find a way to reverse a Clearly erroneous "Termination' Of Parental rights" in IN.
The statutory requirements were not met, it was not found to be in the "Best Interest" of my child, the state did not meet it's burden of proving that i was any kind of credible threat to the safety or well being of my son, there was no judicial determination that reasonable efforts were failing or that i wasn't cooperating with "Services" which were few and far between for ME, but my son received PLENTY Of them;
there was no finding of parental unfitness and there was certainly no substantiation of abuse or neglect. NOW then, this leaves a boatload of ludicrous reasons for the "Termination" that alot of people who have seen REAL "Terminations" scratching their heads.
so, if i have never abused or neglected my son, am not an unfit mother and the allegations of the petition were not proved, what options do i have??
Oh, there was also a "Pathetic" and FRIVOLOUS Appeal that was of course, affirmed, but the appeals court judges did not conduct a meaningful review of the issues, as pointed out previously, because if they had, the would certainly have reversed and remanded for a new trial, since i did not have an opportunity to be heard, present witnesses, counsel was about as effective as a dead rat and the judge did not follow the rules of trial procedure and other elements of the law that required him to dismiss the case.
Please help, i haven't seen my son in over 2 years and i am not taking this well. HE has some serious emotional issues that i believe are being exacerbated by this forced separation from his VERY LOVING, fit, clean,sober and responsible mother!! i can't possibly imagine this is having any sort beneficial effect on him; much less what it is doing to me...........
thanks in advance for your help.

You need to be sitting down with the best family law attorney you can find...and QUICKLY. If your case has already had an appeal, then any possible course of action for additional appeal must come within prescribed time frames. If it's been two years since the appeal was upheald, I suspect that you're WAY outside any additional appellate relief to a higher jurisdiction (you usually have 90 days).

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[B][COLOR="Gray"]well, here's the rub, attorneys cost money, BIG money that i do not have at this time. I am working, but only part time, due to the economy. THe appeal was "Affirmed" in 2009, so it has been just over a year. Lack of finances is why i am posting on this forum. Most attorneys want a retainer way out of my reach, plus additional fees for revewing the case file. I would like to be able to file a motion to intervene, since there is a hearing in late October, i would truly appreciate some help to that end. Additionally, i would like to know if i can get some insight on getting a Belated Petition to transfer to the Supreme court, since there are numerous constitutional issues at stake, which i will be happy to explain......

This isn't the kind of thing you're going to be able to accomplish WITHOUT an attorney (and even WITH one, you may already be past the time for additional action on the issue) - one who practices in the courts with jurisdiction over the issues, and, one who has the ability to obtain the case file materials and digest the exact wording of the court's (and appellate court's) findings and actions. This isn't something you'll be able to attack via advice from an online forum. Yes, attorneys can be very expensive. They are also often the ONLY way to even begin to attempt to address complicated issues such as overturning an affirmed TPR case. Less than 1% of TPR cases with affirmation get overturned, even with TEAMS of attorneys working on the case. I know that's not what you want to hear, but you are absolutely not going to have a shot at overturning this without one. Has this been appealed to your state's superme court?

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I agree with aardvarc on this one. Have you browsed through the information in LawInfo's Free Legal Resource Center to learn more about your issue yet? See: http://www.lawinfo.com/consumer.html and http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/index.html. You can certainly try to speak to a lawyer to determine what legal options may be available. In the meantime, you may be able to learn more on your own. Search the "Free Legal Resources" tab, or browse the Consumer Resources. Good luck.