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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.
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