Legal Advise Offer to QAF fiction Writers

[denvercatmom.livejournal.com]

I want to offer legal assistance to anyone who is interested and is writing QAF fiction so your fiction might be more realistic. I can't give specific legal advice but I can tell you what would/could happen in a legal situation you are writing. I am an attorney in CO but a lot of basic stuff is essentially the same in most states.(Louisiana is different).Simply send me a note to qlegal@q.com and I'll get back to you asap. A credit in your stories would be nice. Please no stories about Gale, Randy, etc. They're real people and I would be uncomfortable advising about them. Mods: Please delete if this is outside the rules. I couldn't really tell if it was or it wasn't.


There is obviously a lot of confusion about this post. I meant I would give advice about legal issues in a story you are writing about Queer As Folk. I am not allowed to give legal advice about your personal issues. The offer was made to help make your fiction more realistic. 

Mods and everyone else, I am so sorry for the confusion this has caused. Please take this down if you feel it would be best.

Comments

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

I think you'd be better served posting this someplace like What's Up QAF (http://whatsup-qaf.livejournal.com/).

[anto-nina.livejournal.com]

Hi! I don't write any story, but some things in canon bugs me. I don't know if the law in USA is so strange or if it's TV licentia poetica. I would appreciate itif you would enlighten me :-)

The biggest mystery is Justin's father throwing him out at age 17. Then Justin can't get students scholarship because his father earns too much money. Justin has to wait a year to get this scholarship. It's odd. In Poland parents have duties. 17-years old kid could go to a court and get alimony, and not until he turned 18 only but until he finished his education and could support himself. Court probably couldn't order even a rich parent to pay for expensive school, but then school couldn't look at parent's earnings but at the alimony only.

I guess a parent could waive his parential right (or be deprived of it) when the child is 17 and didn't do anything wrong. It would mean the parent couldn't demand support from the child if he ever needed it, and the child wouldn't inherit anything after the parent's death. But I'm pretty sure the child could still get the alimony until he could support himself.

In the show it never crossed anyone's mind, so I can't help but wonder why...