What can we do if my daughter wants to move in with me?
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What can we do if my daughter wants to move in with me?
My daughter turns 16 this month and has lived with her dad for about 9 years. However, now he has met and moved in with a woman he has known for 2 months who tells my daughter she can’t stand her and verbally abuses her calling her names and talking down to her. My daughter wants to move in with me but is afraid of her dad making her life hell. He has taken her phone and won’t let her talk to me or come see me. What can we do?
Asked on January 3, 2013 under Family Law, Texas
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Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
You need to make the best decision for your daughter with respect to her living arrangements. I suggest that you, the daughter and the father sit down and discuss the situation.
If it is in the daughter's best interests by a vote of 2/3 to reside with you then she should do so for the time being subject to a signed stipulation by you and the father prepared by a family law attorney filed in the county court where all current child custody orders exist.
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