My 15 year old daughter would like to move from colorado where she lives with her mom to iowa to live with me ...what do we need to do ..her mom says no way!!
You need to petition the court for a change in parental responsibility. Because your daughter is currently residing in Colorado, the Colorado courts have authority. You can do this online and through the mail. Most of the counties have forms that can be printed off their websites. Due to her age it should not be too difficult. Have her write a letter to the court stating her reasons and file it with the court papers. Hope this helps.
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Hi this is mark from England. For a start you need to be the legal guardian of the child, if you are not then you must have your ex partner,s consent to your daughter moving to live with you permanently. That,s the easy part! The relevent agencies will do the neccessary background checks on you, i.e criminal, health, financial, reasons, once you,ve satisfied these and she does end up living with you, you will be given a probationary period and carefully monitored, it will be a gradual process, probably starting with weekend stayovers x2 per month then midweek stayovers. This is done just to make sure the child genuinley wants to be with you all the time and not because she is not getting her own way with the other parent. That said, there is also the changing of schools which at her age is very disrupting. They will also try to find out why she wants to leave her mother to come and live with you. There are bound to be issues in the other household for her to want to leave, which are likely to be serious i.e mothers new partner etc. My advice would be to keep in constant contact, give it a little more time, (the idea may wear off her) albeit you wanting her to come and live with you, and find out the issues involved. Be prepared for a backlash from the mother if she does come to live with you, if it goes to court she won,t give in easily and be prepared for your history as man and wife be put out to dry for all to see. And then you have to be reasonable to the mother when she then wants access to her daughter. If thats what your daughter wants then go for it, after all its the child,s happiness that counts, I wish you luck my friend let me know how things go. mark UK
PS what you gonna do when she brings her first boyfriend home?
First of all, make sure your daughter wants to live with you for all the right reasons. Not sure your situation of parental rights. Make sure your daughter isn't expecting to live with you and have no responsibilities meaning she may walk all over your authority. Think this out before making any decisions.
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