Obama is a billionaire ? <| sep |> So I ' m from NY and my parents split up when my older siblings were 21 , 19 , 17 , 14 , I was 11 , and two little siblings 6 and 3 . When parent set divorced the kids get a law guardian who is in charge of representing the kids best interests . I don ' t know about all law guardians but mine did a great job of representing what each of us kids wanted . The two oldest were out of the house , but 14 and 17 year old both opted to stay with my dad , while me and my little siblings wanted to stay with my mom . Our law guardian made sure that happened . At age 15 I no longer wanted to see my dad at all , and wanted to move across the country to live with my sister , I spoke with my law guardian and she set up a Lincoln hearing Me , her and the judge plus a cop and a transcriptionist , no parents or their lawyers , I was able to give my case and then he allowed me to over across the country . When my youngest sister turned 10 she no longer wanted to see my father at all either , so she went to see our law guardian . After a few meetings and some court proceedings that my sister was not involved in her visitation was switched from mandatory to voluntary visitation , and the judge ruled the same for my other sister , even though she had not presented a case . Make sure the kids are meeting with their law guardian , my mom wasn ' t necessarily the best about getting us there to see her , but if especially rh oldest knows she wants to stay with her mom , and explains that to the law guardian , that person will have a lot of sway .