Just like the setting sun...
This is kind of a long story, but.. Here it goes.
My boyfriend (Matthew) who moved away over this past summer would do anything to get out of his Dad's house. He's never lived with his mom, because when he was younger, she was always on drugs. She's clean now, and after she found out about the abuse Matt's dad put him through, she wanted to get custody of him. He told her that all he wants is to come back to where I live, to be with me. So, she had the idea that if she gets custody of him, he could come back here and live with a friend.
I just wanted to know what are the odds of that even happening? She's totally clean. She's a resident of Washington, but she's in Arizona right now, taking care of her dying father. (My mom said that the court has a hard time taking kids away from their mother's in the first place, so if he wants to go back with her the odds are. Regardless of the fact that she's unemployed at the moment, only because she's taking care of her dying father.) My boyfriend and his dad are residents of Alaska. I've looked up a lot of stuff about child custody, but everything I found was in very legal terms, and I.. couldn't really understand it.
Matthew is sixteen years old, so I heard that the odds were good, being as he's old enough to make his own decisions. Another thing I wanted to know, was if when his mom files for this, would it happen immediately, or would it be like, "Okay, we'll take care of it in a few months, come back on this day." and then he has to go back with his Dad for three months or something, while his dad is pissed that he is trying to go live with his mom?
Another thing, is in your personal opinion, do you think it's the right thing to do? I'm concerned on if maybe he should just stick it out. His seventeenth birthday is coming up, and then after that we both only have one year of school before we're eighteen, and then he'll be "free" of his dad, anyways. I just can't stand him living in that house, and neither can his mom. I'm so torn on the whole thing. sad
My boyfriend (Matthew) who moved away over this past summer would do anything to get out of his Dad's house. He's never lived with his mom, because when he was younger, she was always on drugs. She's clean now, and after she found out about the abuse Matt's dad put him through, she wanted to get custody of him. He told her that all he wants is to come back to where I live, to be with me. So, she had the idea that if she gets custody of him, he could come back here and live with a friend.
I just wanted to know what are the odds of that even happening? She's totally clean. She's a resident of Washington, but she's in Arizona right now, taking care of her dying father. (My mom said that the court has a hard time taking kids away from their mother's in the first place, so if he wants to go back with her the odds are. Regardless of the fact that she's unemployed at the moment, only because she's taking care of her dying father.) My boyfriend and his dad are residents of Alaska. I've looked up a lot of stuff about child custody, but everything I found was in very legal terms, and I.. couldn't really understand it.
Matthew is sixteen years old, so I heard that the odds were good, being as he's old enough to make his own decisions. Another thing I wanted to know, was if when his mom files for this, would it happen immediately, or would it be like, "Okay, we'll take care of it in a few months, come back on this day." and then he has to go back with his Dad for three months or something, while his dad is pissed that he is trying to go live with his mom?
Another thing, is in your personal opinion, do you think it's the right thing to do? I'm concerned on if maybe he should just stick it out. His seventeenth birthday is coming up, and then after that we both only have one year of school before we're eighteen, and then he'll be "free" of his dad, anyways. I just can't stand him living in that house, and neither can his mom. I'm so torn on the whole thing. sad
...is returned to the Lonesome Ocean.
