What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
New Hampshire.
My cousin is having issues with her mother. She was in some trouble up in Maine a year ago and her dad helped her get into one of those first offenders programs and she has been better since. The problem is she is back in NH living with her mother to get away from the bad crowd she had been hanging with. Her mom is being really hard on her-more than her circumstances require. She has her cell taken away, no driving, and her mom blames anything that goes wrong on my cousin. In addition, she has taken the court required counseling session my cousin had been going to and turned them into the counselor mediating their fights, so my cousin no longer has anyone to help her sort through everything. Finally my aunt chooses to discipline my cousin by throwing her in a headlock which she has PTSD from because of her time in Maine. Now my aunt thinks that filing a CHINS petition will solve their problems when even their counselor thinks that they would be better off apart. My cousin wants to move out after her 18th birthday in February. Can my aunt file, with my cousin being as old as she is? Could the petition be extended to keep my cousin at home until she graduates? Can the petition even be filed on the base of mild alcohol use and alleged "verbal abuse" from my cousin towards my aunt? I acknowledge that my cousin has issues, but willl a court actually allow my aunt to control her daughter through this when my cousin is just reacting to the unrealistic demands of her mother?
New Hampshire.
My cousin is having issues with her mother. She was in some trouble up in Maine a year ago and her dad helped her get into one of those first offenders programs and she has been better since. The problem is she is back in NH living with her mother to get away from the bad crowd she had been hanging with. Her mom is being really hard on her-more than her circumstances require. She has her cell taken away, no driving, and her mom blames anything that goes wrong on my cousin. In addition, she has taken the court required counseling session my cousin had been going to and turned them into the counselor mediating their fights, so my cousin no longer has anyone to help her sort through everything. Finally my aunt chooses to discipline my cousin by throwing her in a headlock which she has PTSD from because of her time in Maine. Now my aunt thinks that filing a CHINS petition will solve their problems when even their counselor thinks that they would be better off apart. My cousin wants to move out after her 18th birthday in February. Can my aunt file, with my cousin being as old as she is? Could the petition be extended to keep my cousin at home until she graduates? Can the petition even be filed on the base of mild alcohol use and alleged "verbal abuse" from my cousin towards my aunt? I acknowledge that my cousin has issues, but willl a court actually allow my aunt to control her daughter through this when my cousin is just reacting to the unrealistic demands of her mother?