Legal Question in Family Law in California

Parents taking money.
My 21 year old girlfriend is currently
living with her father and her step-
mother. She recently got into a car
accident in which it was the car's
fault. Part of the steering
mechanism broke while she was
driving on the freeway and caused
her to spin out of control. If she
ended up filing a law-suit against her
car company/dealership and won,
how does the money become split up
if she is paying for everything on the
car except insurance, and she is a co-
signer with her step-mother, and she
is on their insurance? Her father has
a history of taking money from her
(Recent money insurance is giving
her, and doing unethical things with
taxes so that him and his wife
save/get money because of taxes but
making so she doesn't get federal
money for school), and we suspect
he would try to take most of, or all of
any money that she hypothetically
could get from a law-suit. We are
trying to figure out how to avoid the
situation.

Asked on 4/04/08, 11:06 pm

Phillip Lemmons, Esq. Phillip Lemmons APC, Attorneys at Law

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Re: Parents taking money.

she's 21, she should hire an attorney. her attorney will make sure she gets the money.

Answered on 4/05/08, 2:07 am

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