OSS is 17 1/2 years old, turns 18 in December. He will be starting high school as a Senior. Court order is in Arizona. Mom and dad have physical legal and joint custody, mom is residential parent.
OSS has been here in an adjoining state since May 26. He has a job and has been working since then. He does not want to return to his mother's after the summer. He wants to stay here and begin and graduate from his school. Mom remarried about 18 months ago and things have not been good between all 3 kids and mom. OSS is the only child still residing in the house, he isn't happy and just doesn't want to live there anymore. OSS lived with us during 7th and 8th grades so he knows we have rules and he has to follow them. This isn't merely him looking at the grass is greener on the other side.
Mom will not be happy with this and will fight it tooth and nail. But legally, does she have a leg to stand on? Can she really file for contempt on DH and attempt to win? Or, based upon the age of the child would it be null anyway?
Do we have to bother filing for custody? No CS is currently exchanging hands because YSS has been living with us for a year.
OSS has been here in an adjoining state since May 26. He has a job and has been working since then. He does not want to return to his mother's after the summer. He wants to stay here and begin and graduate from his school. Mom remarried about 18 months ago and things have not been good between all 3 kids and mom. OSS is the only child still residing in the house, he isn't happy and just doesn't want to live there anymore. OSS lived with us during 7th and 8th grades so he knows we have rules and he has to follow them. This isn't merely him looking at the grass is greener on the other side.
Mom will not be happy with this and will fight it tooth and nail. But legally, does she have a leg to stand on? Can she really file for contempt on DH and attempt to win? Or, based upon the age of the child would it be null anyway?
Do we have to bother filing for custody? No CS is currently exchanging hands because YSS has been living with us for a year.