Answering the call to Guardianship

When the call came in that our nephew was in danger and living in a crack house that hit us hard. We did not think twice! He although had a different opinion, he liked his freedom at the ripe age of 14 1/2. When we went to get him on a peaceable note he refused to come with us. So we left him to his own choice as we had no control, it was hard to leave him. For months the situation became worse as the drug use in the home increased, then the deep call from within hit us both. We then petitioned the courts and were turned down, why is this we asked?

Now getting into the legal process of guardianship was a maze that was to hard for us to handle, we decided to hire legal council to guide us. It took weeks of papers and pleas back and forth to get them to listen to our requests. The final straw that brought this to the judges attention was the letter we wrote to the judge, telling him the electrical power and the water had been turned off and guns were in the home. The night we made the request the father shot himself in the leg with a 22 caliber rifle while hanging it up on a nail and the other hand was holding his injection needle of meth. By the next day we had our ex parte order to have temporary custody pending a court hearing.