Guardianship issues

[Mei-Mei]

I live in Louisiana. My mother lives in Indiana.

My new career involves frequent travel, so my two sons will be staying with my mother. I have a couple of questions about her being the children's legal guardian:

(1) How do I establish her as the legal guardian? Is it necessary to do this in court?

(2) My youngest son is mentally handicapped and receives SSI. The SSI will, of course, be transferred to my mother's address, but will the government use her income or mine as the basis for the payment if she is the legal guardian?

(3) Is it sufficient to just provide my mother with a notarized paper giving her permission to enroll the children in school or get them medical attention? Or does that leave too many holes?

Thank you in advance for any answers you can provide for me.

 

[Bre's_mom]

My first question is, where is the father of your kids? Cause he should be the first one to have a chance to take care of the kids if you cannot.

 

[Mei-Mei]

That's a good question Bre. The father of my children lives in Colorado and has not seen them in almost 12 years. Though I have strongly encouraged communication between them he is pretty much inactive in their lives.

 

[Bre's_mom]

Thankyou for replying, so it sounds like he don't care if your mom takes over guardianship? I've heard from someone close to me that when she took over guardianship of her friens child, all she did was get it noterized, and that was enoughto get medical coupons, and I think she also got food stamps, I'm not sure if this will help you, but I'd look into it, call SS office and ask them, you don't have to tell them who you are, just ask the general question.

 

[Mei-Mei]

Bump. Please help. Thank you.