For a large period of that time her mother lived here also and for a year her father was living with us too. There is now a six month old baby, mom and dad have seperated.
Mom is unstable, living in an apartment filled most of the time with teenaged boys.
Dad is a drug user currently in a treatment center. We want legal guardianship to protect the children and to be able to add them to my medical insurance. I am 58 and still working, but Grandpa is retired. He stays at home with the baby during the day while the toddler is in preschool. Both parents are willing for us to take legal responsibility for the girls, but I don't know where to start.