Cherokee County Department Of Social Services Busted

The Cherokee County Department of Social Services in NC is currently facing a federal lawsuit and already had a case overturned by a local district court judge over improper uses of a custody and visitation agreement (CVS) in order to remove children from homes with a court or judge hearing a case. According to reports, there are potentially over 100 families in Cherokee County NC who had children removed from the home or parental rights severed using custody and visitation agreements. In this case, the plaintiff alleges that DSS gave him no choice but to sign the agreement and he lost all contact with his child. Both the director of the local agency and attorney for the agency faced questioning in the federal lawsuit.

If you’re reading this document from this county and believe you too were abused by this agency, we STRONGLY encourage you to contact an out of county attorney who specializes in civil rights lawsuits.

How Do I File A Complaint Against DSS?

Many readers to our website often ask us what can be done about a rogue state agency who seemingly is operating outside the bounds of the law, and the answer we always have is there is nobody. You’re only way to file a complaint is to spent $5000 to hire a lawyer. But as we’re about outline, that’s likely not going to help.

If we had to guess, we suspect that the DSS workers in this matter were taking kids to get them in to the system so they can pull in state and federal money. And, we likely suspect that low income families were the targets of this specifically. This agency knows that very few families, especially during the 2020 and 2021 pandemic, have $5000 cash to fight a state agency in court, much less get one in front of the federal courts.

For decades, we’ve been shining a spotlight on DSS abuses for profit. But this also extends to the local judges and lawyers who also make a profit FROM this type of abuse happening in the first place.

Problem 1

Family court and DSS court is an industry which benefits from 2 parents viciously fighting for 18 years so lawyers can make money. The lawyers that litigants hire to help them in court are delighted you’re there so they can bill through 3 sets of retainers before cases get settled. The problem with this is that the 18 years of fighting is responsible for untold murder/suicides, domestic violence, and suicides by people who lose access to their children because of poverty, or within a system designed to make money rather than in the best interest of families and children.

The “in the best interest of the children” routine is the warm and fuzzy marketing to make the courts sound human.

Problem 2

The Cherokee County Department of Social Services gets state and federal money when parents are removed from their children.

For decades we’ve shined the light on the Social Security Title IV-D program which gives each county 86 cents for every dollar they collect in child support which is then used to aid low income families.

While we have no problem with child support, we have a big problem when judges and social workers work their magic to separate children from parents just to get this federal aid.

If you’ve ever wondered why after a family court hearing you weren’t allowed equally shared parenting, it’s because the county wants their Title IV-D money. The less visitation you have, the more they collect in federal aid.

And, local lawyers love that DSS pulls these tactics because it’s billable hours.

The only way residents in Cherokee County NC can get their complaints heard when DSS and local judges and attorneys pull their crap, is to talk with your local legislators, or to form a local group to work to unseat local judges, commissioners, representatives, and senators.

When you take in to account the numbers of divorces and families to parents who are destroyed by unequal courts, no elected official can survive re-election with that number of people working against them.

The Industry