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[PayrollHRGuy]

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no we are not online friends I don’t know who came up with that one we are actually really close friend and I know her family really well but we have just gotten off of the Texas attorney generals website and have gotten information that is really mor helpful then people not from Texas that don’t know the different loopholes and she can leave as long as she tells the parents and can not be considered a “missing child” and due to the fact the percents would know if her wear abouts the police can not forcefully take her back home unles she is in danger due to her age

Do you happen to have a link to that? Because I'm betting you either read something wrong.

 

[t74]

Then she needs to speak to a school counselor or other mandated reporter to get her removed from the home and placed somewhere else safely and legally. That is generally going to mean foster care, but it could be kinship placement foster care.

This is the best advice you can give your friend.

 

[commentator]

If you both think what you've said above is true, that thing someone said we think you misread, I fear you're going to get a sad awakening. Until she is 18, your child is possibly either being counted for public assistance, or is receiving child support or social security payments, there's something coming in, and if this is true, then her parents will fight tooth and nail to get her back and make her stay where she is until she is 18.

 

[cbg]

Show us where in Texas law it says her parents are prohibiting from bringing her back themselves as long as she tells them where she is.

 

[17anonomus]

Do you happen to have a link to that? Because I'm betting you either read something wrong.

https://www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/opinions/49cornyn/op/2000/pdf/jc0229.pdfSince you think I can’t read the first few paragraphs or each of these to articles https://www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/opinions/50abbott/op/2003/pdf/ga0125.pdf also if you arnt from tx and don’t know the laws or loopholes please leave this thread

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

Look to me that you have two different opinions there from two different AGs, neither of wish is the current AG.

 

[cbg]

The notices attached to those links do not say ANYTHING like you think they do.

And you have not yet posted the link to the law you fondly imagine will prohibit the parents from going to where the 17 year old is staying and saying, "My minor child does not have permission to be here and I am taking her home right now".

 

[stealth2]

Look to me that you have two different opinions there from two different AGs, neither of wish is the current AG.

I thought the same, but then shrugged my shoulders and figured Child 1 and Child 2 could learn the hard way.

 

[Shadowbunny]

https://www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/opinions/49cornyn/op/2000/pdf/jc0229.pdfSince you think I can’t read the first few paragraphs or each of these to articles https://www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/opinions/50abbott/op/2003/pdf/ga0125.pdf also if you arnt from tx and don’t know the laws or loopholes please leave this thread

Being rude is not the way to get help. That being said, since you are so sure that you know the answer, why are you asking here?

 

[Eekamouse]

https://www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/opinions/49cornyn/op/2000/pdf/jc0229.pdfSince you think I can’t read the first few paragraphs or each of these to articles https://www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/opinions/50abbott/op/2003/pdf/ga0125.pdf also if you arnt from tx and don’t know the laws or loopholes please leave this thread

You can't ask a question and then dictate who can and cannot answer you. Are all children in Texas as arrogant as you appear to be?

 

[stealth2]

You can't ask a question and then dictate who can and cannot answer you. Are all children in Texas as arrogant as you appear to be?

Only the illiterate ones.

 

[xylene]

You are posting 3rd party information of a sensitive nature. About a minor no less.

You may mean well... but this could go sideways on you.

Your intent does not match the possible outcomes, at all.

Your "friend" is the only one who can solve her problems.

 

[txmom512]

Then she needs to speak to a school counselor or other mandated reporter to get her removed from the home and placed somewhere else safely and legally. That is generally going to mean foster care, but it could be kinship placement foster care.

Honestly - in Texas, DFPS is stretched so far beyond its limits right now that they've got little kids living in DFPS offices... If the kid is 17 and has a safe place to go - they are most likely going to tell that kid to go there. And if the kid has already left and is in a safe place, they are most likely going to tell the kid to stay there. They just don't have the manpower to take on a kid who is that close to 18.