Sinjection
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Florida
Situation stands as this. A friend of mine, a 15-year-old female, has been currently living with a friend of her mother's for about a year now. Her two younger brothers live with the mother herself. The girl's mother agreed and has no problem to her staying with her mother's friend, whom also has an 18-year-old son, whom she views as a big brother. They get along like a family, and it's a pretty nice situation worked out there. She moved out for the reason that the mother's friend, a 52-year-old woman, is a person she's known for 2 years already, whom she feels close to and can talk to. The 52-year-old woman has completely taken care of the girl, financially and everything without recieving ANY child support from either the mother or the father of the girl. The girl is currently is taking Florida Virtual School, has a steady part-time job, and is in good mental and physical health.
Anyway, the father of the girl, who had been stationed in the military for some time, is now back, and is divorcing the girl's actual mother. He is also trying to get full custody of all three children (the girl and her two younger brothers.) Is there something the girl should do, write, say... whatever, in order to have the mother gain custody of her? Is she old enough to choose which parent she wants to live with? She knows that the father will NOT permit her to stay with the 52-year-old woman she has been living with for the last year, because the father only cares about looking good for his new girlfriend. So, obviously, the girl wants her mother to gain custody, knowing that the mother was caring enough for her daughter's happiness to allow the daughter to live with the 52-year-old woman that she views as her own mother.
So, is the father gaining full custody likely? Is there something the daughter could do to prevent that? The two boys who live with the girls actual mother (6-years-old and 3-years old) have never really even known the father (who barely ever did anything with them before he left the military), and want to be with the mother. The girl, OBVIOUSLY, wants nothing to do with her father, who has only proven that he cares little for her happiness, and only for his own self image.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
Situation stands as this. A friend of mine, a 15-year-old female, has been currently living with a friend of her mother's for about a year now. Her two younger brothers live with the mother herself. The girl's mother agreed and has no problem to her staying with her mother's friend, whom also has an 18-year-old son, whom she views as a big brother. They get along like a family, and it's a pretty nice situation worked out there. She moved out for the reason that the mother's friend, a 52-year-old woman, is a person she's known for 2 years already, whom she feels close to and can talk to. The 52-year-old woman has completely taken care of the girl, financially and everything without recieving ANY child support from either the mother or the father of the girl. The girl is currently is taking Florida Virtual School, has a steady part-time job, and is in good mental and physical health.
Anyway, the father of the girl, who had been stationed in the military for some time, is now back, and is divorcing the girl's actual mother. He is also trying to get full custody of all three children (the girl and her two younger brothers.) Is there something the girl should do, write, say... whatever, in order to have the mother gain custody of her? Is she old enough to choose which parent she wants to live with? She knows that the father will NOT permit her to stay with the 52-year-old woman she has been living with for the last year, because the father only cares about looking good for his new girlfriend. So, obviously, the girl wants her mother to gain custody, knowing that the mother was caring enough for her daughter's happiness to allow the daughter to live with the 52-year-old woman that she views as her own mother.
So, is the father gaining full custody likely? Is there something the daughter could do to prevent that? The two boys who live with the girls actual mother (6-years-old and 3-years old) have never really even known the father (who barely ever did anything with them before he left the military), and want to be with the mother. The girl, OBVIOUSLY, wants nothing to do with her father, who has only proven that he cares little for her happiness, and only for his own self image.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.