Very rarely does the decision to remove custody reach the courts, and when it does, the ruling almost always favors the administration. Only 4% of biological families who have custody removed DGPPIA (the acronym for the General Directorate for the Prevention and Protection of Children and Adolescents, which replaces the DGAIA))withdraws guardianship of the children They appeal against the administrative measure that in many cases means that the child must be admitted to a foster home or live with uncles or grandparents. And, according to data from the DGAIA, in nine out of ten cases they lose the legal battle because the judge upholds the decision of a but this is a snapshot that coincides with the most recent data provided by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ): of the 10,000 withdrawals of guardianships that are issued throughout the State each year, a thousand families resort to the courts and only in 2% of cases are the destitutions revoked by Marta Tortosa and counselor of the Catalan Bar Council (Cicac), it must be taken into account that if there are so few judicial resources, it is because the affected families "are vulnerable, without resources," and cannot afford a lawyer to file a claim. "Court lawyers can only intervene when necessary, and an administrative procedure against the DGAIA is not considered that," he points out in an interview with ARA. Regarding the decision-making process for withdrawing custody, Gellida criticizes: "The administration investigates the matter, issues the resolution, and also executes the agreement. In a state of law, we have always kept in mind that the law is made by one person, executed by another, and the one who convicts is the judiciary. Even in the criminal sphere, there is one judge who instructs and another." He concludes: "At the DGAIA, they do everything; what we want is for there to be a separation of powers."