myusername
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My jurisdiction is: Florida, USA
Hello, this may be one of the crazier stories you've read, and I'll try to keep it short:
I am the adult child and result of a fling between a German mother and an American father. After my mother got pregnant in the States she returned to Germany where she had me.
I had no contact with my father or anyone in my family for that matter until I turned 17 when I met him. He was VERY poor, but helped me get US citizenship. My mother then decided when I was 19 to send me to live with him. I did not know the man, or this country.
When I arrived at the airport, noone picked me up at first, and I got in touch with people who knew my dad. They provided me with shelter for the time being. Over the phone my mother basically explained to me that my life was my responsibility now. That was at a point where I had not met my American side of the family, ever, and had maybe exchanged a dozen words with the man who apparently was my father in this lifetime. I had no driver's license, education, or anything of that sort, and basically was an abandoned teenager in a foreign country.
The years that followed were tough and I literally had to beg my way through life, slowly getting to know my family. I am in my mid-twenties now and have serious medical and psychological problems from the fight for survival over the past couple years, and from not having been allowed contact with my father and family for most of my life. It is only now that I am beginning to realize what has really happened.
I wanted to know:
Is there any way I could claim damages for child abuse? Do I have any rights? I was neglected most of my life, then sent to a foreign country to depend on people I had never met. If so, what law would this fall under? (I know very little about the US legal system) Which law would apply, considering I am a dual-citizen residing in the US, my mother is a German citizen residing in Canada nowadays, and we both lived in Germany most of our lives? I'd greatly appreciate a response, even if it was of the "Too bad for you, but you'll just have to live with it" kind.
Thank you much.
Hello, this may be one of the crazier stories you've read, and I'll try to keep it short:
I am the adult child and result of a fling between a German mother and an American father. After my mother got pregnant in the States she returned to Germany where she had me.
I had no contact with my father or anyone in my family for that matter until I turned 17 when I met him. He was VERY poor, but helped me get US citizenship. My mother then decided when I was 19 to send me to live with him. I did not know the man, or this country.
When I arrived at the airport, noone picked me up at first, and I got in touch with people who knew my dad. They provided me with shelter for the time being. Over the phone my mother basically explained to me that my life was my responsibility now. That was at a point where I had not met my American side of the family, ever, and had maybe exchanged a dozen words with the man who apparently was my father in this lifetime. I had no driver's license, education, or anything of that sort, and basically was an abandoned teenager in a foreign country.
The years that followed were tough and I literally had to beg my way through life, slowly getting to know my family. I am in my mid-twenties now and have serious medical and psychological problems from the fight for survival over the past couple years, and from not having been allowed contact with my father and family for most of my life. It is only now that I am beginning to realize what has really happened.
I wanted to know:
Is there any way I could claim damages for child abuse? Do I have any rights? I was neglected most of my life, then sent to a foreign country to depend on people I had never met. If so, what law would this fall under? (I know very little about the US legal system) Which law would apply, considering I am a dual-citizen residing in the US, my mother is a German citizen residing in Canada nowadays, and we both lived in Germany most of our lives? I'd greatly appreciate a response, even if it was of the "Too bad for you, but you'll just have to live with it" kind.
Thank you much.
