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Ok heres what happened. For the past year Ive been living with my friend whos been getting state medical for me. Ill be 18 in a month and a half. I live in WA, The friends mom filed child support on my mom who doesnt have a job and no way to pay. I havent been living with her for school reasons. So now she says either i move out with her which i REFUSE to live with her... or shell file me as a run away. Would the cops do anything? Since im so close to being at age?
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Well, technically your friend's mom is entitled to child support if she is taking care of you. Your friend's mom can file but if she doesn't have any money then DHS will just deduct it from her wages. By the time all of the paperwork is filed, you will be 18 at that point, so I wouldn't worry about it. BUT, I would try to find some way to contribute so that will alleviate the burden of your friend's mom trying to raise an extra kid if you're planning on staying there. Even if it's helping her with some chores, like cleaning, or running errands, or things like that... you really oughta be grateful to her and do something nice back.
"Close" is not legal. Try to stall her for the month and a half. If not, find someone else to live with. If this woman took care of you financially (providing you food, shelter, etc), she probably has some right, I would want something if I was raising someone else's child, especially if I lived in a better school district!
Yes - "close" doesn't mean anything. You are either 18 or not. What a mess - is there anything showing that your mother was aware of your situation and in support of where you are living? Something in writing like authorization for this person to care for you or sign school docs for you,etc.? I guess that would show that you are not a run-away.
Try to find a lawyer, file immancipation and go to your local welfare office and pick up an insurance form to fill out.
I don't think she can file you as a run away simply because the mom of your friend filed for child support. That bought it to the states attention that you are residing with this other person with your mothers knowledge. Only if your mother gave custody of you to your friends mother can she be ordered to be paid child support, and they would have had to go to court to do that at which time support would have been determined. So now since none of this was done in the courts, than yes your mother can make you move back in with her. Your mother isn't to smart at all. Did she really expect some other person of no relation to raise you. I think if (and this is my opinion) she tried to black mail you back in to moving in with her the law would have a lot of questions for her to answer. So maybe if she thought of that, she might think differently of trying to black mail you in to moving back in and re-think her position on paying child support. Another way and a costly way to in sure you can stay where you are is for your friends mother to get an attorney and file for legal guardianship of you maybe than and after explaining the situation to a judge will your friends mother get child support for you. Is what I want to know is how was your friends mother able to get state medical for you if you aren't in her custody?
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