Q: My estranged husband is allowing my daughter to stay with him, and not attened school and I am truant? My options?
I am in Ohio and my estranged husband lives in KY. My 15 year old daughter who lives with me is refusing to come home because she doesnt want to go to school and he is not making her. She is 15 years old. I have proof where he has provided her with vapes, alcohol, and marijuana in the past but she is saying she doesnt want to come home now because my boyfriend and I had a fight and she doesnt feel safe. Not true. She wants to do all of those things and she can at her dad's house. I have been limiting her length of time she stays over there because of what I found out and up until now she told me she didnt feel safe over there and didnt want to stay overnight. What can I do? They are trying to come at me for her being truant and I cant even make her come home because of my estranged husband. We have been separated form almost 5 years now and she has never lived with him, normally she refuses to go at all. What can I do?
A: You need to file for divorce and seek an emergency custody order as part of your initial filing on the basis of your allegations and the truancy issue.
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