Q: 17 year old son wants to live with his mom now, I am in IL/ mom is in WI- case was in WI
He is upset at me for showing up at his mom's house at midnight after his location previously indicated he wasn't there/was turned off and he wouldn't answer my phone calls/text messages. He said he was at a friends' house. The issue I have is that he's driving my truck late at night and not answering me when I ask to make sure everything's okay and that he wasn't using "Im going to moms" as a means to undermine me and go where he wants. I don't have his moms phone number because she "feels like he's old enough that we shouldn't have to call each other" but called me through his phone (that I pay for) to scream at me that I'm just trying to control him.
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Sounds like you need to take the truck privileges away. If he goes to his mom, she can provide him with a car or sign this one over to her so it's not your problem when you can't supervise him and he ends up in a bad accident. Is he going to go to school there? Does mom want him full time? Seems like there should be a conversation about that. I would tell the kid to have his mom call you.
Then you will have to pay child support. Go to the child support estimator to figure that out.
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