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    Default How to Overrule a Juvenile Probation Officer's Order That a Minor Live at Home

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: MICHIGAN

    One of my daughter's friends has been residing in our home for most of the summer months. She is 16. She has a very volatile relationship with her mother and although she has a better relationship with her Dad, he many times sides with her Mom. I do have permission from her parents that she reside in my home while the 3 of them work on reestablishing a healthy relationship with effective communication. Prior to the her moving into my home- she was caught shoplifting. Today was her hearing and she was assigned to consent calendar. During the meeting with her probation officer, she remained silent and would shrug her shoulders. She was scared to say that she wanted to remain in my home after her Dad brought up the fact that she had not been living at home. She felt that arguing with the probation officer would be worse and more agencies would be brought into the situation. Her thought process was that she would work the living arrangements out with her parents being they had already approved her being here. Well, that backfired. I had a very long conversation with her Dad after Court and we decided that I should contact the probation officer explaining the situation, etc. This man was absolutely the rudest professional I have ever communicated with and my degree is in criminal justice exposing me to many situations. The bottom line is the probation officer said that he is the "Dad of the Dad" so anything the parents agree to does not stand with the Court and if she is not home by 8pm this evening- he will contact CPS on her parents and have me arrested for harboring her. My question is this- is there any hope that she can remain in my home? Can we petition the Court? ANYTHING! I sincerely feel she is suicidal. She is hysterical saying that she will run away and no one will find her. And, with many teens in this generation- I believe she would really follow through.

    Any information or guidance is greatly appreciated!

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    Default Re: Can You Get a Juvenile Probation Officer Replaced if You Don't Get Along

    Sorry, but the fact that you, an unrelated individual, don't like a minor's probation officer is not grounds for the removal of that probation officer, nor is the fact that the minor chose to mislead the probation officer into believing she intended to live at home going to convince this probation officer or the next that she should be permitted to instead live with you.

    The minor can have a curfew as a term of probation and if the parents choose not to enforce it that would be grounds both to potentially incarcerate the minor in a facility where she will get appropriate supervision and for a protective services investigation of the household and why the parents were choosing not to enforce the child's curfew.

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    Default Re: Can You Get a Juvenile Probation Officer Replaced if You Don't Get Along

    I didn't make that my title regarding a different PO so I am unsure of how that became the title. My direct question actually was related to the fact of IS there a petition that could be filed for the child to remain in my home? Not by me but by her parents. I, of course understand the law and at this point- I have no legal rights in the matter. I have seen, on many many occasions where juvenile probation officers have allowed their probationers to reside with other families in order to work out their differences at home. It takes cooperation of both the child, the parents and the adult where the child is residing. In fact- I have seen this be very successful in many cases.

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    Default Re: Can You Get a Juvenile Probation Officer Replaced if You Don't Get Along

    Yeah, you ignored the instruction to make your thread title a short version of your question and it was an incoherent mess. When you follow the forum instructions it's easier on everybody.

    If the parents want to hire a lawyer to try to get the juvenile court to give their child permission to live with you instead of them, it's their money and there are lots of lawyers in the phone book. The facts matter, and we don't know them.

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    Default Re: How to Overrule a Juvenile Probation Officer's Order That a Minor Live at Home

    It takes cooperation of the probation officer, which you do not have.

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    Default Re: Can You Get a Juvenile Probation Officer Replaced if You Don't Get Along

    Wow! Mr Knowitall fits you well. And, I am not meaning literally. Typical attitude of one. I think you missed the bus on social skills but I do thank you for the information on the legal matter even though it really didn't answer my question on a Petition. A lawyer isn't always necessary to petition the Court.

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