What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? California
Our 19 year old daughter has lived with us all her life and has started to give us problems (lying, stealing money, dropping out of school, running away etc). Last night she took off with her loser boyfriend and we discovered that $7400 in cash was missing from our safe. Not sure when she took it. We called the police to report the money missing but he said because she lived in the house and had access that we couldn't press charges against her even though after hearing our story he was reasonably convinced that she most likely took it as well.
He told us that we need to evict her and change the locks. He said that we had to go through a legal eviction process to get her out. Can't we just tell her to leave? Why does she have any rights to this house? She has never paid rent or contributed financially to any portion of this household.
Thanks in advance to whoever can provide some insight on this.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
Our 19 year old daughter has lived with us all her life and has started to give us problems (lying, stealing money, dropping out of school, running away etc). Last night she took off with her loser boyfriend and we discovered that $7400 in cash was missing from our safe. Not sure when she took it. We called the police to report the money missing but he said because she lived in the house and had access that we couldn't press charges against her even though after hearing our story he was reasonably convinced that she most likely took it as well.
He told us that we need to evict her and change the locks. He said that we had to go through a legal eviction process to get her out. Can't we just tell her to leave? Why does she have any rights to this house? She has never paid rent or contributed financially to any portion of this household.
Thanks in advance to whoever can provide some insight on this.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?