Lawyers and Judges of the Straight-dope…
if you know not of my current family situation, let me relay this to you. It all started with my neighbor and ym mom. he fucked my mom (both married at the time) and they lied about all of it. she moved out, NASTY divorce ensued, and divorce was just final a week ago or something.
he was my best friend ever, we hunted, fished, and camped together. Bastard thought of me as a son figure, i think he just took it too far. (just a LITTLE too far). they’ve been having a little thing for a couple of years now. so I dunno, I just found out about it in December or something
it’s one thing to be sat down and told all of this BEFORE it happens, it’s another to be betrayed by your mother and best friend, lied to, and then told you won’t have a choice who to live with.
Today, I came back to a nearly-empty house with almost everything gone. the lamps, the living-room TV, all of the excess furniture, and all of the wall decorations were stripped from the property by my mother.
she’s got nearly-full custody of me, and that is something I don’t want. I honestly cannot stand her, or my neighbor (who, I think is gonna be living with her), and that will pose a problem when it comes straight down to it that I have to live with them.
I want to fight for independent custody in court. she has betrayed me, my Love, and my trust for the last time, and given the current situation I believe I may be able to win.
the only thing I cannot handle is the impending cost if I do this.
there really isn’t a question, but I want advice please. Thank you in Advance-- Adam Brown, Age 15
Ad Noctum; who is stuck between a rock and a hardplace