I Want to Live with My 16 Year Old Girlfriend

My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Ohio

For the past couple years my parents have been on heroine really bad, they've been taken to jail and left me on my own. I am 16 years old, so without hesitation i called my sister to live with her. I've already lived with her in the past, and it didn't work out at all. There was never any food, and she always had me babysit. But i'm now living with her again and it's the same as last time, theres never any food, and im always babysitting her kid. Obviously there is other family options for me to live with, like my grandmother, aunt, etc. But i've been with my girlfriend for two years, and i would rather deal with starving and putting up with babysitting for a couple more years if it means i couldn't live with her. I guess the main question is, if my girlfriends father took my sister to court for her parents to get custody of me, would it work? They are both hard working people, always food there, very smart people, all of there kids are in college, make great money and there is a bedroom for me already for when i go and stay. I'm sorry if this is a long post, this has just been going on for too long and i want a good life.. thank you for taking the time to read this.

No. It wouldn't work. There isn't a judge in the country that would give custody to your girlfriend's family when there are members of your family available to take you.

Ahhhh, how sweet. Sorry no court is going to emancipate you to shack up with your girlfriend.

What the hell is wrong with you guys? Here is a 16 year old person with drug addicted parents that is falling between the cracks and all you can do is say no, no, no?

Kid, go talk to social services or youth and family services or whatever it is called in your state about your problem. You deserve to have a stable home and support. They will help you but you have to go and contact them.

Budwad,learn to read. Better yet, learn the law.

The answer to the specific question the poster asked IS No. He asked very specifically whether or not custody could be given to his girlfriend's father. The answer to that IS No. Whether you or the poster likes it or not.

If you LOOK at what I told him, you'll see that I suggested that alternate family placement COULD happen. No one said that he was stuck forever where he is, only that the SPECIFIC solution he wanted is not going to happen. And it isn't.

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What the hell is wrong with you guys? Here is a 16 year old person with drug addicted parents that is falling between the cracks and all you can do is say no, no, no?

Kid, go talk to social services or youth and family services or whatever it is called in your state about your problem. You deserve to have a stable home and support. They will help you but you have to go and contact them.

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Hold on a second. His complaint was that he had to babysit and that there was "no food". With a teenager, almost always "no food" translates to "no food that I want to eat". As far as babysitting goes, that is completely normal. He also said that he would rather put up with that if he cannot live with his girlfriend. He also is not living with his drug addicted parents. They are in jail. He is living with his older sister.

This is not a situation where the teen is being neglected. If we thought it was, we would have already advised him to talk to his school counselor or social services.

Point of order, not to be discriminatory, but factually correct. I believe this is a girlfriend-girlfriend relationship. I read into this that older sister is not real fond of said relationship.

Could be, but irrelevant to the legal answer to the question.

What's wrong with us is that we can read.

You're welcome to join us!

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What the hell is wrong with you guys?

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One might ask the same of you. Did you not learn reading comprehension in school, or is your failure to comprehend a result of an overarching desire to be outraged?

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Here is a 16 year old person with drug addicted parents that is falling between the cracks and all you can do is say no, no, no?

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We do accurate legal information here, not "blow sunshine up people's asses". The answer to the question of "Can my girlfriend's father take my sister to court for custody of me" is NO. Not just here in Ohio, but in every state of the Union.

Kiddo already acknowledges s/he has the option of living with an aunt or grandmother, but simply does not want to. There is no "falling through the cracks" here.