Jasmine Garst

I've been hearing a lot about it from lawyers.

Lawyers I spoke to say they've seen an increase in recent months.

I spoke to Ginger Miranda.

She's president of the Central Florida Hispanic Bar Association.

What we're advising is, you know, to be prepared.

And lately what they've been doing is they've been holding a lot of emergency guardianship and power of attorney classes across the state.

And what they recommend is that people do not make verbal or informal kind of handshake agreements.

Make concrete plans through a lawyer, they say.

Yeah, she described it almost like a will.

Like this is something you don't want to think could happen, but it could.

So have the paperwork drawn out.

Don't go and tell your cousin, hey, take the kids.

It's a smart precaution.

Yeah, there's a reality, which attorney Ginger Miranda says, which is if you do not prepare, the consequences can be really serious.

Which is exactly the scenario this Honduran family is afraid of, their son ending up in foster care.

So they all went and signed the paperwork to give the U.S.

citizen family emergency guardianship.

The American mom says she has told nobody.

She does not want to put the Honduran parents at risk.

Instead, they tried to keep the mood in the house light.