How old do you have to be to choose which parents you want to live with in Oregon?

Answer 1

As an alternative, why not ask for Joint Physical Custody of your parents?

Tell them that you want to remain in a home, and each of them there for three weeks, than switch. Once night a week, the parent not in residence takes you out to dinner or some other activity. While in the home, the resident parent does not date, or have overnight guests, other than relatives.

On the off weeks, the parent rents a room, stays with relatives, their friends, or they can split the cost of a two bedroom apartment, with each having their own bedroom.

The priority here is you not having your life disrupted by their choice not to be together. Their lives are equally disrupted and they split the cost of your home.

The support amounts each parent are obligated to provide for your care can go into a TRUST FUND. From the trust fund, expenses for the home and your standard expenses, are paid.

All this follows in accordance with Federal Laws dating back 100 years as regards Trust Funds that have been established for guardians to draw from when parents have been killed in an accident. Also in cases involving child stars (The Coogan Act-1939) where the law is designed to prevent their parents from spending the money for their own uses.

Any money left in the account would collect interest and be available for emergencies, or special expenses, such as part of the cost of a car, or a college education.

This is called Bird Nest Custody. YOU STAY IN THE NEST THE BIRDS TAKE TURNS BEING THERE.

Answer 2

As an alternative, why not ask for Joint Physical Custody of your parents?

Tell them that you want to remain in a home, and each of them there for three weeks, than switch. Once night a week, the parent not in residence takes you out to dinner or some other activity. While in the home, the resident parent does not date, or have overnight guests, other than relatives.

On the off weeks, the parent rents a room, stays with relatives, their friends, or they can split the cost of a two bedroom apartment, with each having their own bedroom.

The priority here is you not having your life disrupted by their choice not to be together. Their lives are equally disrupted and they split the cost of your home.

The support amounts each parent are obligated to provide for your care can go into a TRUST FUND. From the trust fund, expenses for the home and your standard expenses, are paid.

All this follows in accordance with federal laws dating back 100 years as regards Trust Funds that have been established for guardians to draw from when parents have been killed in an accident. Also in cases involving child stars (The Coogan Act-1939) where the law is designed to prevent their parents from spending the money for their own uses.

Any money left in the account would collect interest and be available for emergencies, or special expenses, such as part of the cost of a car, or a college education.

This is called Bird Nest Custody. YOU STAY IN THE NEST THE BIRDS TAKE TURNS BEING THERE.

Answer 3

Only Texas has that law, but with significant restrictions. In all other states, it's a case by case basis, with the Judge interpreting the maturity of the child, and their intent, but this still does not override other evidence in the child's best interest. It's just a piece of the evidence.

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Answer 4

18, however the child is always free to make their wishes known to the judge, either in court when custody is being decided, by requesting a meeting with the judge, writing a letter to the judge expressing their wishes, or engaging an attorney or guardian ad litem to speak for them. The judge will take into consideration the wishes of the child, and generally, the older the child, the more weight is given to those wishes.

Ultimately, however, the judge will rule depending on what he or she feels would be in the best interests of the child.

Answer 5

You have the right to be at a custody hearing and speaking directly to the judge regarding your wishes, however, there are many other factors that affect the decision. Changing of custody is very serious issue and the judge is not allowed to order a change in custody based solely on what you want.

Answer 6

A child must be 18 years old before s/he can decide for him/herself which parent s/he wants to live with.

At around age 13, a child could ask to speak with a judge in his own behalf and tell the judge which parent he would prefer to live with and why he would make that choice. If the judge agrees with the child's assessment and sees no reason not to settle residential custody on that parent, then the child may get his wish.

If the judge does not agree with what the child says, then the child must abide by the judge's wishes.

Answer 7

18.

I know what you probably meant to ask, but the hard cold facts are that until you're no longer a minor, you do not get to choose. The court does that, taking many factors (of which the child's wishes will generally be one, but only one) into account.

You can make your opinion known to the court that is making the determination, but they're not obligated to abide by your wishes. As a general rule, they'll give your opinion more weight the older you are (with 12 often being a kind of watershed) but there's no magic age at which they suddenly go "oh, so the mother is considered by the community to be a literal saint, has millions in the bank, and is willing to suspend her job to take care of the child full-time, while the father has no visible means of support, lives in a flophouse, and has 12 convictions on his criminal record ranging from grand theft to assault with a deadly weapon to trafficking in child pornography, but the child really wants to live with the father; father it is, then."

Answer 8

I would try?