Legal Question in Family Law in California

We live overseas (in Portugal, Europe). Our daughter is 17, thus a minor, and we want to send her to California to live with a friend and study there. Our daughter is a US citizen. While is California our friend needs to be able to make decisions on behalf of our daughter, enroll her in a local school, enroll her in medical insurance, make medical decisions, etc. I believe this amounts to us granting her custody of our daughter and we heard that to do that we would need to grant her power of attorney to make such decisions (and then have it notarized). However we are not sure if this is sufficient nor what would be the right wording to include in the document that would give her all the required right. Any help is appreciated.

Asked on 8/01/11, 9:02 am

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A power of attorney would not be sufficient. You would need to arrange for your friend to become her legal guardian.

Answered on 8/01/11, 11:26 am

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