FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 2025
Contact: Jeremy Newman, Vice President at Family Freedom Project
Email: Jeremy.Newman@FamilyFreedomProject.org
Phone: 214-707-8445
Texas Judge Reunites Ivy & Nico With Their Parents After a Year Of Separation Following Faulty Medical Diagnosis
Today, we get to share the news we’ve all been working and fighting toward: Ivy and Nico are going home.
This morning, the judge released her order: Ivy (1) and Nico (3 months) will be fully transitioned home over the next few weeks. In addition to being kept from their parents, Ivy and Nico have never lived together because of CPS’s forced separation of the family., Now, thanks to the work of the Hendersons’ extraordinary legal team, they will finally be reunited.
Attorneys Brad Scalise, Shelly Troberman, and Chris Branson, along with defense consultant Judy Powell, were instrumental at every stage—crafting legal strategy, navigating hearings, reviewing medical records, and relentlessly advocating for the return of Ivy and Nico. CPS and children’s hospitals across the state are now on notice: FFP and our legal partners are committed to defending innocent families and will take the fight all the way to the end to bring accountability.
Jeremy Newman, Vice President of the Family Freedom Project said,
“Today is more than a victory for one family—it’s a restoration of what should never have been taken. Ivy and Nico’s homecoming shows what happens when a family is given a fighting chance against a system that too often assumes the worst. Every time we win, we don’t just reunite a family—we change the trajectory for the next family too. This is why we won’t stop.”
A Full-Circle Moment: One Year Since the Boatright Victory
Today’s win comes exactly one year to the day since FFP and many of the same legal team members won the Boatright case, where baby Evelyn was taken from her parents following a rushed abuse diagnosis and removal—conducted without a full medical review or due process. It was the Boatright victory that prompted the Henderson family to contact Brad Scalise and Judy Powell a year ago. That single moment of hope, born from another family’s restoration, made today possible.
FFP is currently defending nine additional families across Texas facing wrongful CPS investigations or removals. Every case, every hearing, every reunion—that’s why we exist.
As we celebrate today’s victory, we are reminded of how critical this work is—because so many families remain trapped in the same broken system. Protecting children matters deeply, but the default should be keeping families together, not tearing them apart.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 2025
Contact: Jeremy Newman, Vice President at Family Freedom Project
Email: Jeremy.Newman@FamilyFreedomProject.org
Phone: 214-707-8445
Texas Judge Reunites Ivy & Nico With Their Parents After a Year Of Separation Following Faulty Medical Diagnosis
Today, we get to share the news we’ve all been working and fighting toward: Ivy and Nico are going home.
This morning, the judge released her order: Ivy (1) and Nico (3 months) will be fully transitioned home over the next few weeks. In addition to being kept from their parents, Ivy and Nico have never lived together because of CPS’s forced separation of the family., Now, thanks to the work of the Hendersons’ extraordinary legal team, they will finally be reunited.
Attorneys Brad Scalise, Shelly Troberman, and Chris Branson, along with defense consultant Judy Powell, were instrumental at every stage—crafting legal strategy, navigating hearings, reviewing medical records, and relentlessly advocating for the return of Ivy and Nico. CPS and children’s hospitals across the state are now on notice: FFP and our legal partners are committed to defending innocent families and will take the fight all the way to the end to bring accountability.
Jeremy Newman, Vice President of the Family Freedom Project said,
“Today is more than a victory for one family—it’s a restoration of what should never have been taken. Ivy and Nico’s homecoming shows what happens when a family is given a fighting chance against a system that too often assumes the worst. Every time we win, we don’t just reunite a family—we change the trajectory for the next family too. This is why we won’t stop.”
A Full-Circle Moment: One Year Since the Boatright Victory
Today’s win comes exactly one year to the day since FFP and many of the same legal team members won the Boatright case, where baby Evelyn was taken from her parents following a rushed abuse diagnosis and removal—conducted without a full medical review or due process. It was the Boatright victory that prompted the Henderson family to contact Brad Scalise and Judy Powell a year ago. That single moment of hope, born from another family’s restoration, made today possible.
FFP is currently defending nine additional families across Texas facing wrongful CPS investigations or removals. Every case, every hearing, every reunion—that’s why we exist.
As we celebrate today’s victory, we are reminded of how critical this work is—because so many families remain trapped in the same broken system. Protecting children matters deeply, but the default should be keeping families together, not tearing them apart.