I need help trying to figure out how to go for Custody of my 19 month old nephew. My brother is the baby’s father but my brother and the baby’s mom aren’t together. The baby lives with his mother, his grandmother and great grandparent’s. We feel as if tho the mother and other grandmother are neglecting the baby. The baby’s mother is 16 years old and my brother is 18.

- The baby constantly comes over here and clothes that are too small when he does have clothes that fit (His clothes are 0-3 months, 0-6 months and newborn when he is 19 months old)

- The baby’s mother’s mother is a drug addict and even lost a baby from doing heroine and crack while she was pregnant

- The baby’s mother’s mom lost all her kid’s (She has 5 that are living, she lost four of them and doesn’t legally have custody of the baby’s mom)

- The baby’s grandmother almost had my nephew taken from her when she was pulled over for driving and doing drugs with him in the car

- The baby has cuts and bruises everytime he comes over our house

- The baby’s mom constantly tells my mom she doesn’t want to be a mother and she can have the baby

- The baby has come over covered in fleas

- When the baby was 3 months old he had a playstation 2 fall on his head and his mom didn’t tell my mom right away because she didn’t want my mom thinking she was a bad mom so the baby ended up not going to the hospital until a few hours after it happened

- They falsely accused my family of Child neglect and lied and told us that they were told we couldn’t see him until child serives said it was okay and the lady from child services who was our case worker told us she never said that

- They once lied about the baby having surgery just to get us to watch him

My mom is worried about going for custody because the babys grandmother threatened her before saying if she tried going for custody that she would make sure she dragged it out and we wouldn’t see the baby for two years. How can I go about going for custody and making sure it doesn’t take long for us to get the baby? We thought about going for custody and asking if the baby could stay with us until the custody battle was finished, how does that work and how do they decide where the baby stays while we are trying to get custody? We are worried they are going to lie again after they find out we want custody and try to say we can’t see him.