If a 14 (or maybe 15) year old leaves his parent's home to live with an adult sibling, without getting parental consent first, what legal repercussions will there be?
14yo has left because home is a toxic, controlling environment, but there is no apparent, legally recognized abuse happening, so calling the police or child services isn't something he (or the older sibling) would consider worth their time.
If his sister, who is a stable adult (married, owns a home, has good income, no criminal history or mental or physical health problems or really any imaginable reason to suggest she'd be a poor guardian) comes and gets the 14yo to come and live with her, and the parents involve the police or child services to get their son back, what response would there be?
Would they insist the 14yo return home, whether he wanted to or not? Would they say "meh, sister seems stable and able to support him and he doesn't want to go home, so we're not going to get involved?" If the parents tried to accuse the adult sibling of kidnapping, how would that unfold? Both siblings would be willing to attest to a toxic, controlling home environment at the parents and that the sister only came at the 14yo's request--she didn't take him against his will, if that makes any difference.
My goal here is for the 14yo to stay with his older sibling and not have to go back home, but I also want there to be lots of conflict and stress in the situation and am considering the parents trying to get the police involved as a way of doing that.
Alternatively, by what process would the sister set herself up for legal guardianship (so that she can sign papers, enroll him in school, etc.) if the parents go passive-aggressive instead of aggressive, and decide to "let" the 14yo stay with his sister but won't cooperate with anything or anyone as a way of punishing her/them?
This is a contemporary US setting, probably Oregon, but maybe WA or CA (still haven't decided where sister lives, in-state or out-of-state--that'd probably complicate things too?)
14yo has left because home is a toxic, controlling environment, but there is no apparent, legally recognized abuse happening, so calling the police or child services isn't something he (or the older sibling) would consider worth their time.
If his sister, who is a stable adult (married, owns a home, has good income, no criminal history or mental or physical health problems or really any imaginable reason to suggest she'd be a poor guardian) comes and gets the 14yo to come and live with her, and the parents involve the police or child services to get their son back, what response would there be?
Would they insist the 14yo return home, whether he wanted to or not? Would they say "meh, sister seems stable and able to support him and he doesn't want to go home, so we're not going to get involved?" If the parents tried to accuse the adult sibling of kidnapping, how would that unfold? Both siblings would be willing to attest to a toxic, controlling home environment at the parents and that the sister only came at the 14yo's request--she didn't take him against his will, if that makes any difference.
My goal here is for the 14yo to stay with his older sibling and not have to go back home, but I also want there to be lots of conflict and stress in the situation and am considering the parents trying to get the police involved as a way of doing that.
Alternatively, by what process would the sister set herself up for legal guardianship (so that she can sign papers, enroll him in school, etc.) if the parents go passive-aggressive instead of aggressive, and decide to "let" the 14yo stay with his sister but won't cooperate with anything or anyone as a way of punishing her/them?
This is a contemporary US setting, probably Oregon, but maybe WA or CA (still haven't decided where sister lives, in-state or out-of-state--that'd probably complicate things too?)
