How to change guardianship from a rapist to me?

Guardianship is very different from Custody. Guardianship is granted by whatever parent has them "willingly" and through some legal system, tho not always via courts, but any regular flunky attorney can witness it and document it in most all states. If you want custody "temporary or permanent" you have to go through channels. You first apply for "temporary custody and generally is to your advantage to get who ever has them now to willingly give you guardianship or temporary custody The "temporary" part, helps comfort them into thinking they can have them back later if they want to (not necessarily) but even temporary custody means you have a little more legal clout to keep them from getting their kids back via the courts should they decide to fight you on the issue one day. Unfortunately , even rapists have rights but i'd still try to befriend the father and try to take the kids off his hands for a while ploy so you don't wind up spending 20,000 in court and attorney fees fighting him for the kids. Once you've had them for a year, you can sneak in and apply for temporary custody and later for permanent custody as more time goes by. If he won't give them up then its very expensive to go thru the court system even if he is a rapist. He's the only blood relative they have left and courts always rule with the parent "unless" they see the children appear to be raped, they turn a blind eye to what he does to others outside the home. that's the judicial process for you, all bunk. Just letting you be prepared for what is ahead of you. So kissing his back side for a while and offering to take in the kids for him for a while, works way better in the long run. this gives you leverage with the kids. if he calls, say the kids are fine, or they are doing well in school or whatever it takes to keep him from wanting them back at all. Demand no child support, and he will probably jump at the chance to unload the kids on you. But you need documentation on more than a slip of paper he writes out on notebook paper, because if they need medical care, no doctor will touch them without a "legal guardian" or parents signature. You can't enter them in public school or place them in a day care without "official" paperwork. Guardianship is easily obtained if the parent is willing and a lawyer can whip up a document in minutes and no court is required, he signs infront of a notary at the lawyers office and your done. If no other parent or family member comes forward over the year to contest to your guardianship, then you are well on your way to a more permanent custody of the children as long as you do not harm them in anyway either. poor kids are being passed around like basketballs, I imagine they are very traumatized by their life so far. Can you offer stability, the kind all kids should have and i don't mean money, i mean be the strong stable person all children deserve but few get? just something to ponder. when one family member is in prison, normally the rest of the siblings from the same family that produced that sister aren't much better than the one in prison either. My family stank. My dad drank, my sister and both brothers drink like fish and do drugs. I don't know what happened to me. I work for a living, have never had a traffic ticket. I don't do any drugs or drink nor desire to. So being normal in my family tree, means "I" am the black sheep because frankly, I don't match anybody else in the family. They all have multiple addictions, including gambling, driving very very fast. If they can't get a traffic ticket on a weekly basis, well they just aren't happy. I like rules, i live by order and stability. If the relative that wants custody is not much better than the parents they want to take them from, its probably not going to be "for them" an improvement anyway. Its just exchanging one hell for another, and both are hot, even if one is 10 degrees cooler, its still hot and will burn you. Its a stupid analogy but its frank.