In What Ways can DCF Counsel Help Families During Every MA DCF Investigation?
During an investigation with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (MA DCF), your parental and family rights may be in jeopardy. To preserve those rights, parents must understand the DCF process. They must also understand the best practices for working with DCF to get the best result for them and their children. MA DCF’s mission is to protect the safety of children, but sometimes their process is traumatic for the child and the family. Once MA DCF opens an investigation, you should contact a DCF counsel to protect your legal and parental rights.
Why is it Important to Hire a DCF Lawyer / Counsel?
There are many benefits to hiring DCF counsel. They can help you understand more of your rights and help close your case quickly. DCF counsel can help parents during DCF announced and unannounced home visits. Remember, you do not have to let the DCF in your home. DCF would have to get a warrant to enter your home without your consent.
Also, everything you say to your DCF counsel is confidential. Statements made to the police are usually not confidential, and become part of the DCF investigation. In other words can, the police can share everything they learn with DCF. Parents are usually unaware that they have the right to refuse to answer some questions. When you talk to an attorney, there is attorney client privilege. That means anything you tell your counsel stays between you two. Your DCF counsel cannot tell anyone anything you tell them without your permission.
Hiring a DCF counsel or attorney will help parents learn how to protect their rights and keep their children. To avoid saying the wrong things to DCF, parents should talk to DCF only with a DCF lawyer or counsel present.
What are Mandated Reporter Laws?
Mandated reporters are required by DCF reporters call DCF if they suspect child abuse or neglect. Examples of mandated reporters are: doctors, nurses, dentists and hygienists, sports coaches, child care providers, therapists and counselors, police officers, teachers and other school employees, and ministers. Mandated reporters are required to report because they are with children for their job and it is the law. Mandated reporters are different from anonymous reporters and non-mandated reporters.
Non-mandated reporters are people who do not professionally work with children but have a reasonable cause to believe that child abuse or neglect may be happening. There are also anonymous reporters who report child abuse or neglect anonymously.
How can DCF Counsel Help with the DCF Investigation?
Your DCF attorney / counsel knows that there are some key issues to look out for during the DCF investigation. Even though anyone can contact the DCF to report abuse or neglect; there are some people who legally have to report any suspicions. They are called mandated reporters. If mandated reporters don’t report their suspicions of child neglect or abuse they will have to pay fines or serve time in jail. When the DCF is investigating, there are some steps that they do. They come to the house, see the injuries of the child, identifies who is the perpetrator, identifies who lives in the house, evaluates the parent/guardian, and a DCF agent will want to talk to your neighbors, school principal, vice-principal, school coach, school nurse, teachers, family members, pediatrician, etc.
How can DCF Counsel Help with the DCF Assessment?
Your family will get a new DCF social worker for the DCF family assessment. This social worker will try and help your family work out the issues that led to the DCF investigation. Your DCF counsel can help you “unsupport” the allegations against you after DCF does the assessment. Your DCF counsel will know exactly what steps to take during the assessment to ensure a good outcome in the end.
What is the DCF Action Plan?
An action plan is a written agreement that the DCF social worker develops with families after the DCF family assessment. It has tasks that DCF recommends the family should do to improve their issues. Your DCF counsel can help you understand the importance of the action plan, and explain that you do not have to agree with all of DCF’s recommendations. Your lawyer can work with you to come up with an action plan that works for your family and also for DCF.
Kevin Seaver is a trusted Massachusetts DCF Lawyer Specialized in DCF since 1991. 
DISCLAIMER
You find yourself in this situation, it’s advisable to seek legal representation from a qualified attorney, like those at the Law Office of Kevin Seaver, who can advocate for your rights and guide you through the complex process of a DCF investigation.
Remember that the ultimate goal of DCF is to ensure the safety and well-being of children while supporting families in crisis.
Please note that this article does not create an Attorney-Client relationship between our law firm and the reader and is provided for informational purposes only. Information in this article does not apply to all readers.
Readers should not rely on this information as legal advice and should seek specific counsel from the attorney based on personal circumstances. Thank you.
Kevin Patrick Seaver is a Massachusetts DCF Defense Lawyer who represents parents against false child abuse allegations.
Massachusetts DCF Defense Lawyer Kevin Seaver has been successfully fighting false child abuse allegations since 1991.
Hello! I need your help asap. My baby is being abused and neglected. Dcf gave custody of my baby to a sick man that is a nacassis drug addict that sits all day long collecting ssi hurting his own daughter bc he is a selfish scumbag. He thinks bc he knows a cop that he can walk around hurting inocent people. We’ll that cop is a crack head coke head drunk. He lives like an animal and the mentally of a 6 year old. He is so jealous of the fact I put my baby first and don’t beat on children like his pathetic friends that do and all deadbeats. They are going into hard working people’s life burning there skin trying to get them fired and trying to knock them down bc they have a life, these mature and normal. They did this to 4 of us total in 6 months all pretty full-time jobs and nice girls. They are so humiliating and embarrassing. He hangs around with a crack dealer and abusive people. I do not hang around with animals and people that gi around and hurt inocent nice people. There overweight miserable at what I get in life what I look like, the kind of mother I am and how hard I work. Dcf really needs to pay for the environment they are putting children in now if I don’t hang around a certain person bc I don’t want my precious baby near certain people to learn from them and be a loser in life. I was working 45 hours a week and in school too. All of a sudden they tried to make my hair fall out tried to call back my daughter’s skull opened 3 times her dad is dirty for drugs and neglecting his baby as well. He is 59 acts like he 14 she is living in filth, he don’t teach her good things at all. Shives her face in an iPad all day and puts himself first. He needs to be away from my daughter then these animals think there funny watching a girl in the shower. To embarrassyourself that bad bc of jealousy that is sad. Then the person who he wants to be with don’t even have custody of her own child. What does that tell you. I really need your help and dcf needs to pay for what they are doing to children and mother’s. He tried to crack his own daughter skull opened then sit all day long screaming and laughing at themselves like murons. I don’t have abusive people in my life for a reason. Humiliating animals in this world that are pervert to make someone thing there crazy.bthen they beat on old ladies with dimeture and beat on children. There is a girl named Lauren that works for housing family that is so discusting I feel sorry for her. When you have no respect for yourself and your that humiliating in front of Normal people in this world bc your a lazy 400 pound slob that’s your embarrassing problem. This women needs her job taking away so she don’t hurt another child. My baby slept with me every night, got bathed every night, outside everyday, was back in daycare, is spotless and I dress my baby and teach my child everyday. These animals are so humiliating and child abusing my baby was walking around the house saying mommy I’m scared, my ears hurt. Then there burning people’s skin hurting inocent telling us we are going to die bc there jealous and this person is desperate. How embarrassing could someone life be. Humiliating but when you go around hurting inocent people and babies bc your jealous I get good guys I’m a good mother who puts her baby first and I care about my daughter’s mental state. The company he keeps all deadbeats not one has there child in there care or they beat on kids. My baby need to be out of that environment and there are a few scumbags who are going to pay down the line. A couple jobless punks that are lazy slobs. How embarrassing could you be then he is almost cracked a baby’s skull opened. Please get back to me or call me at 7813090554. The saddest part is hey think there putting a show on for people. No, all they are are humiliating jealous lifeless abusers that are discusting. I was # 4 in 6 months she did it to all pretty hard working girls and the youngest one was 19. Please call me
I really need help from you or someone you may know. My daughter’s dad has been and is abusing my baby and me for the last 3 years. He thinks bc he knows a cop that’s a coke head crack head pervert he can do whatever he wants to. A couple jealous disrespectful discusting child abuser and elderly abusers that are gross. You don’t try to kill a baby bc your a selfish scumbag and use a baby for an apartment I will have my precious baby back in my custody and a couple junkie drug addict murons don’t fade me at all. They don even know me o have anything to do with my life. I put my baby first. Her doctor already logged how bad her diaper rashes were when I wasn’t there. She stabbed herself in the cheek with a pen drank a bottle of Motrin. Her daycare teacher knows how sick of a person he is also. I was going to work then he tried to knock me down to make me think I was crazy everything my baby owns is bc if me. He is the biggest fool embarrassing scumbag child abuser on 2 feet. He don’t bath her he don’t change her he kept her out of daycare for 4 months. I’m 39 years old and a stranger that’s a punk don’t have say in my life. You don’t walk around this world hurting inocent hard working people one of the best mother’s in the world that’s why my baby was sleeping with me every night wouldn’t even go to him then dcf to allow him to get high hurt her he needs to go to jail for what that junkie did to the both of us bc he a selfish scumbag. I was working 45 hours a week. I’m not a dead beat like him and his new 8 friends that go and try to knobm down hard working pretty girls bc there all overweight nasty dirty deadbeats that are so humiliating it’s sad. His new cool kid friends that have nothing to do with me tried to crack my babies skull opened 3 times bc there shitbags mother’s that dumped there kids. My daughter is my life and I’m telling you to be a heartless child abuser like that not care about a baby mentally get hurt his own child. She would cry to me ssyinv her dad’s hurt you hear that mommy. That is the sickest scumbag move I’ve ever seen and I will not allow my baby to be around a piece of shit nasty deadbeat child abusing drug addict with no life that thinks she’s cool. She don’t even have her own kid in her care. It’s funny to hurt inocent peole to disrespect other people to hurt babies. You don’t do that and all the bad things that already happened to my baby in his card. They beat on kids and old ladies with dimensions. You don’t hurt inocent people then you go after the weak bc there a piece of shit. Can you please call me back. I don’t and would never associate with something like that and I put my baby first. My daughter has no business being anywhere near that child abuser
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