concernedmother
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Is it not illegal to "trade" children for an object of monetary value???
Kinda like putting them on Craigslist except she knows the seller. :waitasec:
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Is it not illegal to "trade" children for an object of monetary value???
Is it not illegal to "trade" children for an object of monetary value???
Okay-- question about law fees: Are lawyers as expensive in Texas as they are other places?
Because, straight up-- that house isn't worth much. mo
My question is:
1. How do you give someone custody of a child that is missing or deceased?
2. DD is not Clint's biological child. Did Clint adopt him? If you hand over the child, don't you have to get the biological fathers permission first? I didn't know you could give away children.
IMHO, I believe DD is in a good posiiton to determine where he wants to live, and any judge would be willing to take his preference into favour.
I just don't understand how BJD could do this legally.
Thanks,
Mel
ETA: does anyone think it odd that you would even broach the subject of children in exchange for a home in a TEXT MESSAGE? That goes way beyond my logic of thinking
I don't see how BD's son can be used as leverage at all. IMO, where he lives or doesn't live, isn't up to her. This is sad. It seems that she's shedding her old life and starting her new life. Actually, I think Clint might have a legal claim to the house without her 'generous' offer, because I doubt her living there alone, without the children was part of the child support agreement. I'm thinking about BD saying things like 'my house', and 'my living room',... I'm sorry but this seems like a ploy...a way for BD to get what she can, before Haleigh is found. MOO.
I hope some attorney will embrace CD pro bono and put a stop to this nonsense. Isn't there legal aid or something for CD to do? This is just more garbage for CD to go thru vs looking for HD and should be the eye opener to BD's frame of mind now.
I agree with you, but I'm not so sure I think trading her kids is necessarily unconscionable. There's a slim chance that she doesn't know for sure where Hailey is, & if by some miracle she makes it home, I'd personally like that home to be somewhere besides BD's. I know that's probably a fairy tale, but there still is a small glimmer of hope. What bothers me & almost wipes out that little glimmer, is hearing how much Hailey wanted to live somewhere else. Why now??? Why not during the holidays? CD probably would've jumped at the chance. As for BD's son...this probably hit him like a ton of bricks. so sad...MOO.BECAUSE it was said to be a text message, there is some question as to WHO actually sent it. Maybe Billie did, but without a voice call or a handwritten note, it could technically have been anyone. Playing Devil's Advocate here...
Also, I happened to notice in the IRS instruction book that parents of missing or kidnapped children can continue to claim them as tax deductions/exemptions, and toward the child tax credit. Custody of a child also (missing or otherwise) enables a parent raising the kid(s) alone to file as "Head of Household" at a lower rate. I'd guess Clint currently gets the EIC and maybe even poverty-level credit, ESPECIALLY with 2-3 kids. The house is paid for... and worth less than $40K, so maybe Billie feels that, in the long run, it is a win-win situation, providing Clint with additional income (assuming he is receiving public assistance of some sort) as well as a huge tax break... to the point of not paying taxes at all, and possibly even getting money back.
I don't think this is kosher. I don't know for sure that Billie made this suggestion, or what her state of mind may have been if she did, but certainly now that she has an attorney, I'd have expected him to counsel her against something so ... well, IDIOTIC (I won't use the "R" word that that family seems to throw around... noticed even Richie used it on the BTHN show)!
If she did, I assume she is pretty desperate. I'd have expected her to want to get OUT of that house, and far from CCity, to be honest. It seems an odd thing for her to suggest. Why not keep the kids out of it and suggest they sell the house now that she has painted and redecorated?
Sorry. I think it is unconscionable for a mother to trade her child for ANYTHING, EVER. Almost as unthinkable as a mother covering up information concerning her partner's involvement in harming her child... At this point, I HOPE it isn't true.
Pro bono lawyers in Texas, cost the same as pro bono lawyers in any state.
IMO She knows Hailey is gone and she can't have DD anyway. So what is she really trying to do?
Ack, I didn't know that we knew for sure... well, lucky her I guess.:iamashamed:
Quiche, we really don't know for sure, I was kinda being a SA, (not a Shawn Adkins).