Holding a tele-conference call?

[tennessee76]

I recently found my daughter after almost 5 years of her mother hiding her from me, apparently, she dropped her off along with her sister at her ex-husbands house whom my daughter had only met a few times. I hired a lawyer Thursday and we are having a tele-conference call with he and I and also the judge and my ex's ex-husband(who is on my side). My question is this...my atty and I are going to try and get Full, legal, and SOLE custody of my daughter for 90 days til we can get a court date set to make this permanent. If I am granted this what should I do to make sure BM never gets her back? They live in South Dakota and the mother is jobless,carless,homeless and is apparently pregnant again. I need your advice PLEASE!

[socrateaser]

>I recently found my daughter after almost 5 years of her
>mother hiding her from me, apparently, she dropped her off
>along with her sister at her ex-husbands house whom my
>daughter had only met a few times. I hired a lawyer Thursday
>and we are having a tele-conference call with he and I and
>also the judge and my ex's ex-husband(who is on my side). My
>question is this...my atty and I are going to try and get
>Full, legal, and SOLE custody of my daughter for 90 days til
>we can get a court date set to make this permanent. If I am
>granted this what should I do to make sure BM never gets her
>back? They live in South Dakota and the mother is
>jobless,carless,homeless and is apparently pregnant again. I
>need your advice PLEASE!

You're doing what you need to do. Your attorney should get a restraining order against the other parent, which you can serve on the other parent if you can find her. But, if you can't, you can just keep a certified copy of it with you, and if the other parent shows up, you call the police and have her arrested, after they serve the order on her.

The other parent is obviously having problems making her life work. It's doubtful she will reappear for a while.