Originally Posted by
drainedwife 
someone told me the substance evvaluation process could take months...and will he not be able to see the kids during that time???
my older daugher is having a real hard time...i want them to be able to see their dad. .....
Hi, if he is doing a substance abuse evaluation to see if he needs treatment-that doesn't take long at all. It is basically a series of questions that he has to answer. Then he is evaluated for chemical dependency based on those answers. Many times a workplace will give an employee a leave of absence to go to in-patient treatment.
I don't know much about all those legal things you are asking about.
Have you told your daughter yet about the substance abuse issue? If you haven't, maybe you could sit down with her and tell her everything about what is going on, then she will have a full picture and this will help her sort things out in her mind and balance what she hears from her dad.
Maybe you could call a free legal aid service and get answers to some of those questions?