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Why would a custody trial matter..Carter is almost 18?

posted 9 years ago by xXenomicXx
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She has her 17th birthday in the show, during the 7th episode season 1. Judging by the clothes they were, a few more seasons pass as we enter into season 3. Not to mention, Crash enters basic training which take at the minimum 8 weeks to complete. So Carter and Taylor are about to have their 18th birthday. What difference does it make if Lori wins custody??
1) Carter (at the age of 13) can choice who to live with; mom, dad, or herself.
2) She is a legal adult by the end of this trial, or soon after.

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[–] xXenomicXx 9 years ago

Custody trail typically take 6 months - 2 years depending if the parties agree or not. If mom and dad hate each other and won't compromise, the judge will give several continuances for the parties to reach an agreement, before he assigns a guardian ad litem or mediator. Then both parties have to go to the GAL and plead their case, then the GAL tells the judge his recommendations, then an agreement is made.
This is not EVER finished in less than 6 months, and given Carter's parent will not give any leeway for Lori, Carter will be 18 before the end of the hearing.

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[–] xXenomicXx 9 years ago

By then Carter could be working on having her own kid.

By then, Carter would run off and marry Crash. As a military wife, she'll probably cheat on Crash while he is deployed...pop out a few illegitimate kids...then start a drug addition!

[–] AnaM31 9 years ago

I think we can chalk this up to bad writing. It takes months, sometimes years for crimes to go to trial, and Lori would definitely be tried for kidnapping, child endangerment, assault, and maybe even attempted murder (unless I'm mistaken, I recall her attempting to shoot Elizabeth, Kyle, or David at the diner) before her flimsy custody claims ever came before a judge.

Lori's defense attorney's arguments had no place in her criminal trial because they were solely related to why she should gain custody. I can't believe the prosecutor didn't object to this line of questioning because it wasn't relevant to her crimes at all.

[–] cryptic16 9 years ago

The trial could just have been a way to dig up Ben Wallace to humiliate David. As you all have posted, Carter's too old for Lori to attempt to gain custody.

[–] ja-97346 9 years ago

I agree the trial is in no way about custody
Carter even says she is old enough to pick and on top of that she says she doesn't see the point because shes all most 18 the topic is there carter has a 10 minute rant on it
(I loved the rant she has about it)
Then she goes on to say she knows lori is up to something. Lori set it all up

Suiside to get carter to the hospital to say "your my mother you rasied me" "i love you" then she got her self declared sain to got to trial and make the family look bad
Loris lawyer going on the rant about the custody is more to misdirected to jury form the kidnapper crazy bitch image of lori to the kind mother lori
And to top it all off
Lori wants to dystroy the family with the new son clame. Ben
Reminder that is just an unconfirmed clame at this point it could be *beep* but either way this will ripe the family apart or it also has the strong chance to bring them together

[–] cinsmith1 9 years ago

I think it was to show that she didn't kidnap her. The result of the hearing didn't involve a custody resolution; it involved her not being guilty of kidnapping.

[–] crazygreen1126 9 years ago

Don't forget that shows never really follow actual timelines. Don't go by Crash's basic training because Crash would've had a very hard time getting into the service as is & we just saw him basically already signed up & leaving on a bus with a criminal record going into the service. That's a hard thing to do & depending on what you did, you can't even enlist. And if you do have a record depending on what, you'd need a waiver & they don't come from your recruiters & it takes time. The show won't drag the trial out months & months till she's 18 because they know it'd be pointless. I'm gonna say this show moves slow paced & it really hasn't even been that long since they turned 17 considering they're still in their junior year & have another year of school. They can basically speed/slow things up how they want in tv even if it makes no sense.

"What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"

[–] mjwm44 9 years ago

Is it that difficult to get in the military now with an arrest record? A couple of decades ago, I knew one troubled teen, and heard of a few others, who were given the choice by a judge of either going to prison or enlisting in a branch of the military.

[–] cinsmith1 9 years ago

I knew people that were late teens early 20s that ended up in the Gulf War the same way. As far as I know it's not legal to do that any more, plus the army has stopped taking recruits like that because they'd rather have someone who wants to enlist over someone who enlists to avoid prison.

[–] cinsmith1 9 years ago

1) No 13 year old can pick thereself. 2) You do have a point there.