My brother, his wife, her son, and their three kids (6 people) were staying with us off an on for the past year. Last August (2010) the kids stayed with us while they went back to FL to earn money. They joined us in September for about three more months.
We were violating housing codes (too crowded) so they had to go to a shelter, and they got housing thru the shelter program and lost it a few months later. (My sil left with the income tax check and took the kids, and did a bunch of drugs in FL). She was in a DV shelter, though she hadn't seen my brother in months but she is a great fibber.)
Her 'boyfriend' was arrested for selling drugs and then they all became homeless. My brother went down and got the kids and then got kicked out of where they were staying. They came back to us. After almost a month it was time for them to go,my sil shows up with her son, and goes into rehab because she was 'suicidal' when they couldn't come back to my home. After they left last time she tried to have me arrested for disciplining her son and my son (I gave them both one whack and I felt so terrible about it I would never do it again, I was just overwhlemed with the kids alone with me for so many weeks, and they were acting out because they missed their parents and I was shall we say, naive.)
My brother was actually in the process of moving the kids to NJ where we have family and he could get some help. She put her son in foster care and she calls DSS on my nieces and nephews, who are now in care and I am worried that either of these people could fake compliance, especially my sil. She comes across like butter would not melt in her mouth (she's like a blond blue eyes kewpie doll, if only you didn't know her) but she comes across well to these people and is able to really run a game, I mean she is really good at it. They didn't even make her go to a place for drug re-hab after she checked herself out after three days, and she is SO compliant to child services they seem to really like her.
I'm worried because she has done this kind of thing for 5 years and my brother is angry. This is the first time the kids have been taken, but he moved them alot. Each time she ran away with money he would move the kids to keep her from them and she would always call the cops so they would let her in and she would leave with the kids. This is the way she would force him to take her back in the past (he loves those kids), so I guess she thought it would happen that way this time.
My house is not big enough and I have no money. Is there anything I can do???