NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

 ACS workers are trained to obtain cooperation from parents. In this endeavor, they have what are called hard and soft tactics. One of the most effective soft tactics that they have is to tell the parent in the beginning of the investigation that they (the acs workers) doesn't even know why they are there and the investigation " should be closed soon."  This has the affect of putting the parent at ease. Then, the ACS worker will return to the home and state that their " supervisor" has told them they must take services from ACS or face a case being filed against them in family court. This scenario can vary a little but the outcome is always the same. The parent cannot understand how the case went from being closed to the parents having to do services. These tricks used by ACS workers are akin to the used car salesman using his "manager" as a higher authority. Unfortunatey, we are dealing with the safety of children and the rights of parents. The goal o...

One of the most illegal and damaging things that ACS workers do, is when they decide that a parent must leave the home and demand that he/she leaves without a court order. ACS workers will threaten the other parent with the removal of the children if the target parent does not leave. Only a judge has the legal authority to remove a parent from the home. If ACS has demanded that you leave the home, please contact an attorney as soon as possible and stand on your rights. Call The Law Offices of Michael S. Discioarro, LLC at 917-519-8417. FIGHTACS.COM ACSATTORNEY.COM BRONXACSLAWYER.COM

ACS workers will use an old tactic against parents that has been used in many different fields. The "my supervisors" said he wants this. This is used against parents to take the blame off the ACS worker and put it on an amorphous supervisor who is in the background controlling events. The is simply a ruse and should not be followed. The acs agenda is two fold. One, if possible it is to remove children and place them in foster care and if that is not legally possible, ACS wants parents to take useless services. The ACS commissioner recently said to the city council that parents should not have lawyers because they may mis out on "all that ACS has to offer". Be mindful this is a highly dysfunctional agency that attacks thousands of parents each year. They do this to ensure that their $3.1 billion budget keeps increasing. If you have been contacted by ACS, contact us at 917-519-8417 and stand up for your family. FALSEACSCHARGES.COM BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM

 The most important thing a parent can do is not speak to an ACS worker without an attorney.Every day in our practice parents, tell us the nightmare stories that they have suffered at the hands of ACS workers. It all begins with the parent talking to an ACS worker about their family. Let us remember the two a main goals of ACS: 1. To remove children to foster care 2. To register parents in useless services that help no one. The goal of all ACS workers is to attack the parents and create a court case against them. Ironically, ACS workers only attack good parents. WHY? because they know that these parents will never harm their children. Thus, after ACS has them enrolled in useless classes and services, they can claim that they have "fixed" a family.  Now  children in crisis are very difficult to help that is why so many children who need real help die while they are under ACS supervision. The dysfunction of ACS harms good parents and does not help children in need. ...

Child abuse investigation? DON’T send in the lawyers By Post Editorial Board November 1, 2019  |  8:43pm Enlarge Image Stephen Levin, chairman of the City Council Committee on General Welfare. William Farrington MORE ON: EDITORIAL Carranza keeps treating his minority critics like they're un-persons Cuomo needs to call out subway union's blackmail bid Sondland's 'bombshell' turns out to be merely his 'presumption' Macron to Europe — unite or die and other commentary Of all the many situations that aren’t improved by bringing in lawyers, the early stages of an Administration for Children’s Services investigation has to lead the list. But City Councilman Stephen Levin (D-Brooklyn), whose committee oversees ACS,   wants lawyers involved  as soon as ACS opens a case. He thinks kids’ safety is ensured by “fully respecting the rights of parents to not have the state unduly infringe on their relationship with their ch...

NYC ACS Lawyer Announces Return of Child in 1028 Hearing ACS took our clients child away from the hospital upon her birth. After weeks of testimony and outright fabrications from the ACS worker, the child was reunited with her mother. NEW YORK  -  June 3, 2019  -  PRLog  -- The case against N.P was particularly sad. The parents had been ambushed by an ACS worker at the hospital. ACS workers like to attack parents in the hospital after they have given birth because they are in a weakened state and cannot defend themselves. The ACS worker removed the child from the parents custody and would not let child leave the hospital. This is the power that ACS has. The Law Offices of Michael S. Discioarro, LLC filed a demand from a return of the child. This is known as a 1028 hearing. The hearing began and what followed was weeks of testimony before the Hon. Frias-Colon. ACS was adamant about the child not returning to the mother despite there being no imminent risk ...

This is a shocking story, even for ACS. ACS kept a child in a broken urine soaked wheelchair, despite court orders to obtain a new one. This is an agency that has a $3.1 billion budget. This case clearly shows the incompetence of ACS. While they attack parents for allegedly abusing their children, a judge has ruled after a hearing that they are the ones actually abusing and neglecting a child. Now if you are the parents of this child, how would you feel? The scathing ruling was issued in late January but was not known of publicly until the I-Team obtained a copy this week. Judge Emily Olshansky held nothing back, finding that ACS had demonstrated a “failure to comply with virtually every order of this Court.” She held the Commissioner of Social Services in civil contempt and ordered the commissioner to buy a $17,150 bond in the child’s name, maturing when he turns 21. Yo you can view the details and the video here.  It is shocking that a news station has to investigate and unc...

This is one of the most common questions that parents have. The answer is yes, by court order, here is the law under the FCA section 1034: ( ii) Where a court order has been requested pursuant to this paragraph the court may issue an order under this section requiring that the parent or other persons legally responsible for the child or children produce the child or children at a particular location which may include a child advocacy center, or to a particular person for an interview of the child or children, and for observation of the condition of the child, outside of the presence of the parent or other person responsible. Because most ACS workers are lazy and know very little about the law, they will simply go to the child's school and take the child out of class and speak to them. They work in conjunction with the DOE. Private schools often limit access to ACS and demand court orders. fightacs.com brooklynacslawyer.com

ACS workers will often demand to speak to the children alone outside the presence of the parents. This is a common request by aggressive ACS workers. If a parent does not comply, the ACS worker will go to court and ask a judge for an order directing the parents to do so. Unfortunately, we are seeing this tactic more and more. It is also true that the vast majority of Family Court judges will rubber stamp most ACS requests. It is difficult to find a truly independent Family Court judge. Most live in fear of ACS, Thus granting any motion ACS brings before them. If you are a parent facing such an issues, contact an attorney immediately. You must address these issues in court and make the judge aware what ACS workers have been doing. FIGHTACS.COM

Dr. Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, an expert witness that routinely testifies against parents on behalf of ACS has moved from Queens to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. This now means that she will be attacking Bronx parents. Dr. Hoffman-Rosenfeld has been sued in Federal court by a Long Island family after she wrongly accused them of harming their child. Parents of the Bronx should be aware of her presence at Montefiore Medical Center. BRONXACSLAWYER.COM FIGHTACS.COM

This is a common question from frustrated parents. The truth is that, in the hierarchy of courts, Family Court is seen as the lowest one nu prospective judges. Judges would much rather have the prestige of Supreme Court in Civil and Criminal cases. Another reason is that the legislature has ignored the needs of family court for a long time. There are simply not enough judges and the caseload is crushing. Just receiving a trial date can take months. Also, in every ACS case, every adjournment has to meet the schedules of three different attorneys, the can be very difficult. It is in this environment that ACS dysfunction thrives. ACS workers do not want an open and fair trial They prefer to accuse parents of abuse and then drag it out through the court system. In the interim, they demand that parents do useless "services" in order to help them become better parents. It is a completely corrupt system that needs to be addressed. As we have said many times. We need juries in Fami...

The ACS worker has a very powerful tool in her arsenal. In order to obtain secrets access to your children, they will pull your child out of class in their school. This happens most often at NYC public schools. The DOE has a policy that gives ACS free reign over your children. Thus, the ACS worker will interview your child in private and ask her or him all sorts of questions. This can be very upsetting to a child who has never met the worker and has no way to defend themselves. WHAT CAN YOU DO? Once you are aware that ACS has been called on you, realize that they will go to your school. The first thing is to advise your child, not to speak to strangers. Second, you must advise the school officials in writing that you do not want anyone speaking to your child without you present. NYC DOE will not help you.

Earlier this year, the I-Team was the first to report that an independent monitor ordered by Gov. Cuomo to oversee the city’s embattled Administration for Children’s Services began its work without a contract, charging pricey hourly fees — as much as $550 per hour — to be billed to NYC taxpayers. This week, the I-Team obtained a copy of the first bill submitted to the city by Kroll Associates, the private firm tasked with monitoring the ACS. After reviewing the first series of invoices submitted by Kroll to ACS, the I-Team has learned that every time the city’s new consultants talk about fixing the agency, it costs taxpayers money. Just one meeting in Albany on March 7, including travel and the review of necessary documents, cost taxpayers $8,187.00. The first bill shows that Kroll has a dozen consultants on the case charging between $285 and $550 per hour. The tab for the first month of services is $51,418.25, which includes a 20% discount. BROOKLYNACSATTORN...

ACS has different schemes in order to entrap parents. One of their favorite tactics is to allege that the parent has mental health issues and demand that they do a mental health evaluation. They demand that the parents go to the ACS office and do a CSAC assessment. "There are many diagnoses that get used liberally to describe stress and poverty," says Jessica Marcus, a supervising attorney with the Brooklyn Family Defense Project of Legal Services NYC. "Somebody is angry and they are classified as hostile. Well, who wouldn't be angry or hostile if somebody had removed their child from them or threatened to remove their child? It's a way of basically taking someone's poverty and powerlessness and treating it like it's a diagnosis and a disease, when it's really a natural response to a difficult situation."  This is the problem. If a parent is upset at ACS, they will claim the parent has anger management problems. You you need a mental ...

Divorce and separation can be hell. This is especially true if there are children involved. One particular nasty tactic that we have seen, is when one parent uses ACS against the other. This often means making false accusations to ACS about the other parent. What most parents do not understand is that the main goal of ACS is to remove children. Thus, if they can have a situation where they can present to a court that both parents are unstable, this will help them remove the kids. The worst thing you can do for your child, is make false allegations against the other parent to ACS. ACS accuse both parents of neglect and start a proceeding. This is a highly dysfunctional agency. BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM FIGHTACS.COM

When a child is removed by A CS , a family is often in shock and is given conflicting advice on how to proceed. New York Family Law allows for a 1028 heating that forces ACS to prove its case before a judge or return the child. The one BIG advantage in demanding a 1028 hearing is that ACS is put under pressure to actually prove their case. During this process they often fail. As we have discusses, ACS is a highly dysfunctional agency. Therefore, in certain cases, it may be very advantageous to the parent to demand a 1028 hearing. This is not the case in each child removal. You must discuss this option with your attorney and decide if it is the best way to go in your case.

ACS lawyers have standard lies that thy tell parents in order to get them to cooperate. Here are the top five. 1. This investigation will last 60 days. 2. I need information to close the case. 3. This is all a formality. 4. We need a drug test to close case. 5. You don't get to have a lawyer for this. For these reasons you should never speak to an ACS worker without an attorney present.

ACS, like many agencies is responding to an ever changing city. New York City is now one of the wealthiest cities in the world and there has never been a city like this in the history in America. Because gentrification has taken hold, many wealthy families are now residing in NYC. Traditionally, the wealthier a city is, the less need for social services. This is a real problem for an agency like ACS who wants to keep its billions in funding. ACS has a simple solution. They simply bring more frivolous cases against parents and in some cases even share a case with several ACS workers to make it appear that they are working. The result is innocent parents being attacked by ACS.

Many parents often ask why are the children assigned their own lawyer in court. New York State law allows the judge to appoint a lawyer to protect the child's interest. It is important as the parent to form a good relationship with your child's lawyer. The judge will ask the judge the law guardian what their opinion is before making a ruling. While the ACS lawyers are in court to simply attack the parents as much as possible, the child's lawyer will often be more fair and will often side with the parent against ACS. The dysfunction if ACS does not usually affect the law guardians. The only agenda the ACS lawyers have is to attack the parents as much as possible and use every legal issue to make sure the parents are punished as much as possibl

ACS workers will often demand that parents attend a family safety conference. This is where the ACS worker and their supervisor try to convince the parents that they need ACS classes and programs to be better parents. If the parents refuse, the ACS worker will threaten them with the removal of the children and court action. The most important point of a family safety conference is that attorneys are NOT  allowed. This allows the ACS worker to bully the parents into taking the ACS services.  It is a stressful trap that ACS workers set up for parents into beating them into submission. Stand up for your rights and demand an attorney.