VictoriaR
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- Georgia
The child was with her step aunt and uncle for almost three years, during which time the mother accepted and used child support money for herself. She lived with them and they fed, clothed, and raised her. The mother did NOT offer any of the child support money to the relatives to help raise her, and in fact they had to pay out of pocket for expensive things for the child like warm coats for the winter, exam fees for her education, and veterinary fees for her much needed companion animal.
Meanwhile the mother used the child support for herself, using it to pay for things that in no way affected or had to do with the child, including a trip to Costa Rica. The child even made numerous attempts to persuade her mother to at least put away the money for her education, but her mother consistently flew into a rage and refused.
The girl is now 19 and in college, she's paid her own way 100%, but her mother entered her taxes incorrectly and as a result the daughter was removed from enrollment for the current semester. She went back to live with her mother after turning 18, but her mother flies into violent rages over the mildest of things. The daughter has almost been kicked out for reasons no more serious than "she's not grateful enough", "she's depressed", and "her cat sheds too much" and I'm not exaggerating that's the full extent of the mother's reasons for throwing her out. The girl is a star student who hasn't been left off the dean's list once in her college career, she's in an honor's society, and she even got a job on the side. She has no criminal record, doesn't smoke, drink, or do drugs, and never even invites people to her mother's house.
I understand that it's within the woman's rights to throw her out, but is it possible that the child could take legal action to receive compensation for the support that wasn't given to her for those years? It could help her get on her feet seeing as neither I nor any of her relatives are in positions of being able to support her any longer. I truly don't believe that she's safe emotionally or physically where she is right now and I'm fairly certain her mother has made up her mind.
Meanwhile the mother used the child support for herself, using it to pay for things that in no way affected or had to do with the child, including a trip to Costa Rica. The child even made numerous attempts to persuade her mother to at least put away the money for her education, but her mother consistently flew into a rage and refused.
The girl is now 19 and in college, she's paid her own way 100%, but her mother entered her taxes incorrectly and as a result the daughter was removed from enrollment for the current semester. She went back to live with her mother after turning 18, but her mother flies into violent rages over the mildest of things. The daughter has almost been kicked out for reasons no more serious than "she's not grateful enough", "she's depressed", and "her cat sheds too much" and I'm not exaggerating that's the full extent of the mother's reasons for throwing her out. The girl is a star student who hasn't been left off the dean's list once in her college career, she's in an honor's society, and she even got a job on the side. She has no criminal record, doesn't smoke, drink, or do drugs, and never even invites people to her mother's house.
I understand that it's within the woman's rights to throw her out, but is it possible that the child could take legal action to receive compensation for the support that wasn't given to her for those years? It could help her get on her feet seeing as neither I nor any of her relatives are in positions of being able to support her any longer. I truly don't believe that she's safe emotionally or physically where she is right now and I'm fairly certain her mother has made up her mind.