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I am sixteen and will soon be emancipated. When I become emancipated can I sue my sister/adoptive mother for damages to my school text books and my belongings being thrown around the room and damaged as well as borrowed money from before I was emancipated?
How you plan on paying for the Lawyers fees... for a case you are sure to lose? YOu think you are going to be emancipated... you realize that means you will HAVE to be self supporting... and how many 16 year olds can make enough to pay rent... food, utilities... AND a Lawyer at $150+ an hour?Quote:
Originally Posted by RaiHarmon21
You aren't getting money back if you don't have signed loan papers... before you were emancipated it was THEIR stuff they were letting you use while in THEIR house.
I think you have a lot of growing up to do yet... and even more learning about real life. Running around with a chip on your shoulder like that makes you a HUGE target of people that get off by knocking those chips off. And there are a LOT of them.
With a job, probono lawyer you actually know, social security benefits etc. Got a real answer for me?Quote:
Originally Posted by smoothy
Where will you live? Transportation? Education? Full-time job? SS benefits because of what?
Renting a room in exchange for house work, provides transportation to school and work food shelter water and electricity, full time job (fast food but still), full time student, and SS benefits for my deceased mother.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wondergirl
How many real answers do you want? A sixteen year old getting a job for minimum wage would be interesting and even a cheap lawyer wouldn't touch your case.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaiHarmon21
Probono lawyer. I know one my question is can I sue her for damaged property and borrowed money.Quote:
Originally Posted by tickle
What total $$ are you thinking this will be?
That I will sue for, 3 textbooks ranging from 50-85 dollars, 100 dollars of borrowed money. $350 approximately.
Big money ! Small claims court.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaiHarmon21
Wait what?
Did you pay out of your own pocket for the textbooks? All my texts in high school were supplied by the school and collected at the end of each class (for redistribution to a later class).
They are school textbooks I now have to pay for because they are damaged, so not yet but yes I will have to pay out of pocket for them.
Why do you have to pay?
Because they are damaged and I will soon be emancipated and my legal guardian does not support me even though legally she still has to.
The school will demand restitution from your adoptive mother (no father?) since you are a minor. So let that happen.
I have been living on my own on and off for about a year. The school doesn't deal with my adoptive mother anymore they know it's a lost cause and my adoptive father will not take any responsibility for me because he is my brother in law as well as my adoptive dad and he never really wanted to be my parent but wanted to be my brother if that makes sense.
It sounds like he is related to you in several ways, so why not be responsible for you -- like a brother would be.
What is your living situation "on your own"?
So Im 16 and when I was 8 my biological father abandoned me and my little sister at school which led to us being in my grandmothers custody, then my mothers, then my sisters when my mother died. I only saw my father 2 after that and has had no communication with him in 6 years. My younger sister just located him. Although his parental rights were terminated 1 year ago, does he legally owe anything to me?
I am currently living with a former teacher and his wife and they will provide me with shelter food and basic utilities for housework and maintaining going to school full time. I pay for phone bills, clothes, bus fare and any random thing I need for myself.
That's not on your own.
Is it not? I pay for most of my bills and what I don't pay for I work for. Like a live in house keeper, it's the same basic concept, what I earn just goes to my bills instead of into my pocket and then to my bills.
Smartass too... got a HUGE life lesson to learn if they ever get out on their own... Good luck finding a pro-bono lawyer for a stupid lawsuit like you are proposing... I wouldn't trust a lawyer that touched that case with taking care of fighting a parking ticket.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaiHarmon21
REAL obvious now they don't have a clue about the real world much less the law. I'd love to be a fly on the wall their first month on their own...Quote:
Originally Posted by RaiHarmon21
Can you shop for groceries and cook so you won't starve to death?
Incidentally... running away from home or being tossed out for being a cocky SOB doesn't qualify as legally emancipated FYI.
Yes I cook for myself now, despite my age I do understand basic life concepts like 20 dollars of groceries goes farther than 4 meals at McDonalds. I may be 16 but I've been raising myself since I was 10.
And to Smoothy, yeah I'm a smart but I know what I'm doing, I asked for advice not down right criticizim.
So what can you cook? Or by cooking, you mean heating up a can of spaghetti-o's?
Got chased out of the house with a high heal because I refused to let a drug dealer disrespect me. If I wasn't a smart I wouldn't have lasted so long in this world.Quote:
Originally Posted by smoothy
Legit meals, shepherds pie, chicken veggies mashed potatoes, beef stew, anything I can find a recipe to I can usual cook pretty well
In a word, legally - no.
And you are going to cook when (full-time school and full-time job)?
OP's threads should be combined. She's Hell bent on suing someone, anyone.
Who can't spell...Quote:
Originally Posted by smoothy
I can't imagine being chased around by someone brandishing a high heal. Or a low heal, for that matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaiHarmon21
School for me is only 4 days a week not five and when school starts I will be a paid intern for massage therapy therefor I won't need to work 40 hours a week to make a full time wage. My home situation is not where I need to be, its not safe, and it hinders my ability to get my education to begin with.
You graduated from high school already?
Then its NOT a full time job and that alone disqualifies you under the law. But then, Reality doesn't have much meaning for you does it.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaiHarmon21
Hell if you was my kid I'd dump you off in the deep woods.
No Im in a program that allows me to be a paid intern for massage therapy as long as the clientele knows I am not fully license, I have a shop that will hire me when I start back in school in the fall.
Well since I make 20 dollars an hour as an intern which is enough to pay my bills, yeah I think it is enough to convince the judge.Quote:
Originally Posted by smoothy
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