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🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Britney is considering taking her aunt to court to regain some access to the kids she lost custody of when she was a drug addict. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 11. Brittany, welcome to the program.
0:15.1	Yes, ma'am.
0:17.9	Um, honestly, I don't know how exactly to go about this.
0:23.6	So it's a situation where whenever I was younger, like, I'm going to take it back to before I had kids.
0:34.6	Before I had kids, I used drugs. I was a drug addict. I had gotten clean,
0:41.4	ended up getting pregnant by now my ex-husband. And I had two kids by my now ex-husband.
0:51.3	Well, whenever I started going through a divorce with him, I ended up relapsing,
0:57.0	and I got my kids taken away. During the whole CPS proceeding, I ended up finding my rights
1:02.5	away because at the time, that's what was in the best interest of my children. I now have
1:09.0	two more children that are in my custody, are then five years clean.
1:15.2	My aunt, she adopted my daughters. She won't let my daughters see me. She won't let me see my daughters.
1:21.2	I know I have no legal right, but because I live in Texas, my two younger kids have a legal right to see their sisters. So I'm really,
1:31.7	I guess really just my family has told me not to take this to court, that they don't want me
1:38.9	to take it to court, but I want my kids to know each other. She's made it clear that, sorry, I'm getting a little bit emotional because this is an emotional.
1:49.2	Who's the father of the latest two?
1:54.9	He is actually here with me.
1:58.5	I mean, he's a different guy than the first two, the ex-husband.
2:02.4	Yes, a different guy. And you married to this guy?
2:08.3	I'm not married to him. It's common law married to him. Yeah, I don't believe in that. But all right.
2:16.3	So your question for me is should you fight this should
2:23.4	i really should i take my aunt to court for my my two youngest kids to be able to have visitation
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