I don't remember whether she and Billy are supposed to be juniors or seniors. With Ben and Jane's flaky Mom both departing, if she just turned 17 I could see a major legal issue coming up (much worse than her lying about her age for the job). Thoughts?
shareShe turned 16.
I'm not sure what you're talking about? What major legal issue?
Jane is not 16. She drives, she a senior in hs.
I believe the OP is talking about legal issues between the mom and Ben if Jane were to be 17.
OP, I think Jane just turned 18.
Five-O is not a democracy it is a benevolent dictatorship!
I drove to and from school legally when I was fifteen and a sophomore in school.
I think Jane is probably a junior in high school having just turned seventeen. Otherwise, her being left alone would be no big deal at all. I mean it would, but there wouldn't really be a need for Jane to have a guardian.
Also, coaches were looking at Nick. They'd start that his junior year and he'd probably make a commitment to a college in the fall of his senior year. He hasn't gotten to that point yet.
And, most of that high school drama becomes so overrated your senior year. You really care more about the future and less about the present. College applications and things are a huge deal for seniors, yet they haven't even been mentioned on the show. I think they're only juniors.
Jane just turned 17. It was said on the birthday episode.
We must be killers
Children of the wild ones
Killers
Where we got left to run?
Thanks, Yorick. I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't quite sure.
So I guess both Ben and Flaky Mom are eligible to be charged with child abandonment. Should be interesting to see where this goes.
So what is the big deal with her living alone?!?! Ben could have easily been there ever other weekend and her mum also could have stopped buy once or twice a month. When I was 15 I spent a year abroad and my sister did the same when she was 16. Doesn't really seem like such a big deal to me that a 17 year old lives alone for a while.
"It's always so much easier to believe what you need than what you know"
Agreed. This was so contrived
We must be killers
Children of the wild ones
Killers
Where we got left to run?
Because Department of Social Services won't have a minor living on their own without being legally emancipated.
Her parents/guardian could be charged with both child neglect and abandonment because she's under 18. I'm not sure if her mother even still has parental rights over her seeing as how she left many years ago and Ben is now her legal guardian. It could be that Ben would be completely on the hook here.