Paternity

I have a 10 month old grandaughter and her mother left at 5 months to go to anouther town and drink and party. the baby has been with us from day one and she spent little time with the baby before she left. now she wants the baby. both parents sighned the baby over and we have gaudianship, the mother does not drive has no money and a alcahol problem, is bipolar and wants the baby. we dont want her to have the baby and fear for her safty. what can we do to ensure she stays with us. we live in arizona the father lives near by and is a part of the babys life to. the baby is very well cared for and happy.

There is reason to believe that my parents are not my parents. How can I find out for sure? I am trying to find out for medical and other purposes. My parents are not truthful with me. I am 29 yo however and I am wondering if I have a legal right to demand paternity testing? Uniform Parentage Act ??

My son has been in jail and out of jail for most of his daughter's life. He has also struggled with drug addiction. When he has been clean he has tried to maintain contact with his daughter by sending gifts/ letters from jail but the biological mother refuses to accept them. Now she has married and wants her husband to adopt my granddaughter. She is trying to terminate my son's rights. Is this possible? How do I stop this? My son has not been a great parent but loves his daughter and is continuing to fight his addiction. After three years in jail he has turned his life around. He gets out this summer and wants to be apart of his daughter's life. What can we do. For added information: mother and child live in California, my son's incarceration has both been in California as well as Idaho. He is currently in Idaho corrections and will be released this summer.

I want to put my sons father on his (my sons) birth certificate. no name change, just put him as the father. I originally put 'unknown'

Do I have to get an attorney to keep the courts from taking my son whom I got when the mom let someone adopt him at birth. I hired an attorney to find him, went through the courts--had his name changed to mine w/Jr. In the meantime, his birth mother relinguished her rights & didn't appear in court. For the past 14 years I & my mom have taken care of this child. My mom has continued to take care of him even several yrs. ago when I was in the Navy for 3 yrs; even when I went out of the the country on several occasions which were job related. I had another child with this same woman, however, she kept that child which is a girl. I've paid child support to her continuously to this date. My daughter ran away from home for abuse suffered by her mom & now the courts have awarded me custody because her mom was found to be an unfit parent by the courts. However, since she has either stayed with her mother or maternal grandmother for the past 13 years, I let her stay w/her maternal grandmother and CPS made her relative conservator. When in court last, the Judge, CPS adlatum & maternal grandmother was speaking of terminating my rights to my daughter. I was told by one of the social workers for CPS that if this should occur, I would lose the rights to my son also. Do I need to do a Power of Attorney; authorization agreement for nonparent relative w/broad Authority by Both Parents; Authorization Agreement for nonParent Relative or should I make my mother his legal guardian. He has always lived with my mother, thus, would this hold up in the Texas Family Courts?