By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

Child Protective Services has formally recommended that Modern Family star, Ariel Winter's sister, Shanelle Gray retain guardianship of the actress and that her mother, Chrisoula Workman not be allowed to have any unsupervised contact with her daughter, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

"Social workers from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services conducted extensive interviews with Ariel, her mother and her sister," a source close to the situation tells Breaking Celebrity News. "At the conclusion of those exhaustive interviews and based on other evidence that social workers had, they have written a formal report for the judge handling the guardianship petition, and DCFS officials agree that her sister should remain as Ariel's guardian.

"The report will have substantial influence on the judge and officials from the department will be in court on Tuesday for the proceedings, and will testify about their report if called to do so. There are major concerns with the emotional abuse that Ariel's mother allegedly inflicted on her."

As previously reported, Ariel is asking a judge to grant her request that Shanelle be appointed her permanent legal guardian.

The young actress was placed in her sister's c