Guardianship

Can Arkansas grandparents gain full time court recognized Guardianship over children with parents permission. The court has warned the parents they are in danger of having the children taken away if they are found to be using drugs ever again. Can the parents assign gaurdianship to grandparents so that if they are found to be using drugs at later date, the court can't take them from the grandparents. We don't want to lose our grandchildren. There are another set of grandparents involved who have already attempted to gain custody (it was not granted) but the parents don't want to take a chance that custody could be assigned to them in such an event. What steps need be taken to acomplish this, to make it legaly binding.

I am married to the Father of 3 young women, 14, 16 and 17. The girls were originally taken from their mother back in 1999. They went to live in New York with their Father. They all moved into my apartment in July 2000. In October of 2002 their Father and I married and had another daughter in 2003. My husband was granted legal custody in New York City Family Court in 2003. After their mother had tried to regain custody. We have since moved to Virginia and I would like to know how do I become a legal guardian in case of a disability or death of their Father. My husband had an accident at work and made me think I need to be able to take care of them. Their birth mother is in New York never sees them, hardly talks to them and has never paid for anything in over 10 years. Thank-you. These girls have been with me for over 9 years I want to be able to sign legal documents and take care of them if anything should happen to their Father.

We may be taking legal guardenship of two of our grandchildren for a few months, what legal forms will be needed?

I live in Nebraska, I have a 19 year old son diagnosed since age 2 with severe autism/ocd. I recently went through a divorce, husband left after 24 years and is now Fighting my petition for Guardianship of my adult son (who lives, has been with me since day he was born) saying he is 'not autistic' although lawyer agrees, it will be easy to prove via dr. records/school records that my son Is Autistic, it will cost great amount of time/money fighting in court, is there a State in Us that does NOT require a natural parent, the one who has been with person since birth, to Have to get 'state legal guardianship? I already have 'authority to accept my sons SSI payments on his behalf (yes SS also found my son autistic) Please help? I will consider moving out of state of Nebraska, if it would mean not having to drag this/my son through court, a lot of time/money and pain.

My granddaughter is 15 1/2 years old. Her mother is bipolar and is divorcing her second husband. My granddaughter is my daughter's first husband --they share custody of my granddaughter (GD). GD does not get along with her mother and her dad is moving away. She wishes to remain with her stepdad (second husband who is divorcing her mom) full time. He is stable and has been a fulltime caregiver for my daughter's children. Financially, GD's dad will need to pay child support to her stepdad to keep her. Her mom is unemployable and the second husband (stepdad) will probably end up paying alimony plus child support to her. Thus, he cannot afford to keep his stepdaughter unless her dad helps out financially.Is this possible? How and what legal means must be taken?