All - Our situation isn't much changed. Dad and I tried to "rescue" brother-in-law from the clutches of the group home Monday. We spoke to him at his sheltered workshop job and he said repeatedly he wanted to go home. So I took them home, and thought we had succeeded, until we learned b-i-l insisted he go back to the group home to get his PJs, whereupon the people there called the cops and tried to convince Dad (who's already confused from his strokes) that the cops were there to make sure he left b-i-l there. We got on the phone and reminded him we had just spent an hour with the Chief of Police, and it was okay to take his son home. So they went out to dinner, then b-i-l said he wanted to go back "home," to the group home. That hurt Dad's feelings so much (one effect of his strokes was to make him very emotional) that he said, "Fine, you don't want to live with me, then just go back there!" So all our efforts were for naught, b-i-l is back at the group home, where they are busily indoctrinating him and telling him lies about how much his brother (my husband) is going to abuse him if he ever sees him again, etc.
Meanwhile, they were calling my sister-in-law in NYC and talking all sweet to her, trying to turn her against my husband, her brother. She saw through it, and will come here for the court hearing Friday. Needless to say, we continue to request your prayers.