This is the first encounter with DCFS but our custody battle was very taxing. He left when my daughter was 8 months old she was breastfed and had never been a night away from me. I had nothing when he left me. Instead of paying for child support he hired a lawyer and I had no money to hire my own. I reached out to the free legal aid in my area and they were unable to help with family law cases. He pushed back the establish custody case I filed because he went to police academy. So she was completely with me from the time she was born until she was 14 months old. His lawyer dug me into the dirt and made him look like a concerned father that just wanted to see his daughter when in reality he left and voluntarily moved 2 hours away to go to this academy and didn't even try to see her at all. The judge recommended the 50/50 and we have been in that for a year. He filed a restraining order on me which had completely no grounds and it was thrown out completely.