I want to thank each of you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate hearing various points of view and suggestions. I agree that don't want keep a child away from a parent if at all possible. Just trying to figure out what advise to give custodial parent if they ask, which they usually do. Hope the lawyers have experience with this and give good recommendations. This is out of my depth of experience. Guess it is a wait and see situation when the person gets out of treatment center. Thank you all.