Can a mentally handicapped child move out of grandparents to her mothers
My step daughter had runaway and I found her well when I found her she said she wanted to live with me her step dad which is me and her real mother which we live in a 2 bedroom only 7 minutes away from where she lives now well the thing is I got arrested for interferring with child custody and when I went to court the prosecutor told my public defender that I had to stay away from the step daughter for a year well I pleaded not guilty well the thing is when I went back to court the prosecutor supplied no evidence of that she is labeled as mentally handicapped and that they have custody of her till she is 21 also I was told by my public defender that the grandparents have full custody till she is 21 years of age she turned 18 in July 2009 I think the grandparents are lying but I do know she is in slow learning classes like mentally handicapped classes my and her mother have been working with her a lot on math and spelling and reading a lot because the grandparents do nothing to help her get a great education at home to like working with her at home. They dropped it down to a disorderly conduct and I got a small fine and 1 year probation. She does want to live with us real bad and told her grandparents that but said she can't till she at least graduates 2011 in may she does not want to wait that long. The grandmother absolutely hates me but the grandfather likes me a lot and understands me and his daughter and the granddaughter to me I think they get disability from the granddaughter to and don't report it as income and I was wondering what can I do and how can I do something about it? Me and the mother are really mad because she can think and is not retarded at all she is slow but not stupid and it makes us very mad. We are planning on moving to the city she lives in so she can still graduate from the same school she is attending now and want to get a house so maybe her brother can move in with us to if he still wants to. To me she is mildly hanicapped but not fully she looks normal as me and you and talks plainly like me and you. The grandparents said she doesn't know how to live on her own or anything I told them it is because the schools and them is why she is the way she is today so me and my old lady are going to work with her a lot here and always.