Common Law Marriage Analysis
In Re SIDNEY BRISTOW
AKA
JANE DOE
MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO PETITIONER'S
MOTION FOR MEDICAL EMANCIPATION
The Honorable Court has heard a Motion for Medical Emancipation from the minor petitioner, Sidney Bristow, a.k.a. Jane Doe ("Sidney," "child" or "minor") in preparation for a volitional kidney removal. The petitioner asks the court for the autonomous ability make all future decisions, consent to medical procedures and submit to a kidney removal for the benefit of her recently met half-sister, Nadia Santos. Jack Bristow ("Defendant" or "Parent") respectfully requests that the Court deny the Plaintiff's Motion for Medical Emancipation as neither in the child's nor the Commonwealth's best interests.
STATEMENT OF FACTS
Sidney Bristow, a thirteen-year-old minor in seventh grade, has petitioned the Court for medical emancipation. The child's mother died when she was quite young, leaving her to be raised by her "always working" father. (Transcript page 4, herein and after "P.4") Prevented from attending social events with her classmates, the minor experienced a lonely childhood without many friends, though she "always wanted a sister that [she] could share clothes and secrets with and everything" (P.5, 25). Lacking a job and fiscal responsibility, the child used her free time to act, run, play hockey and ride horses with interests in learning tock-climbing and foreign languages (P.6). Recently the minor became aware of the existence of a half-sister ("Nadia") born out of wedlock, whom she "never knew growing up"(P.5). Nadia has a kidney ailment that requires a transplant. The child would like to facilitate this by removing and donating her own ...