[ParentInterrupted]

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Utah

We were recently informed by a neighbor that she found emails between her son and ours that indicate that my son may have sold drugs to hers, both are the same age. Now she's threatening to file a civil suit against us. Does she have any grounds? We try to control our kids as much as we can and had no knowlege if he was doing anything and the email didn't prove that he did only that her son gave my son money for drugs and my son didnt get them so her son was pissed.

[lwpat]

Can she sue? Yes. Does she have a case? No.

[cyjeff]

Have you searched your son's room yet?

[ParentInterrupted]

Yes I have and we have had problems with him in the past, we've drug tested him and he has used at least weed based on one of the tests. So there is a reasonable chance that he has sold or obtained drugs for friends in the past, I just don't know if that makes me civily liable for something.

How do you protect your assets when you have a child that wont follow the rules?

[cyjeff]

You make him follow the rules.

You wait until he leaves the house and you take away everything that he holds dear.

He gets a blanket, a pillow and a change of weather appropriate clothing.

Nothing else. Not even a door.

As he earns your trust back, he earns his stuff back.