Anything we can do? (long n might not flow)

Ok so this is long...

Ok so ive been talking to this girl, ill call her D. she has a problem with her mom and step-dad so she moved out to live with her older friend and her husband, she is 18 so thats all grand but she has a sister and she is only 17, ill call her T,T turns 18 in september, but her mom is forcing T to live with her and we think that its just for child support. We need to come up with a way for T to be able to leave her mom because all her mom is doing is holding her back at everything in life and here is the story..

D and T's mom and real dad split when they were very young because their real dad was abusive towards their mom, so she married another guy and i guess everything seemed ok.. When D and T were in the 2nd and 3rd grade, their mom pulled them out of public schools to home school them.. except that their mom never turned in any papers or things to be graded so it looks as tho like they pretty much never went to school on paper. So D somehow got into a high school and a career center but ended up having to get her GED and now she is attending a local university. On the other hand T never got into the high school because her mom would never enroll her, now we are all trying to get T out of the house.

Their mom was abusive towards the girls and would hit them but D told me that now that they are being watched that she wouldnt hit T because she knows that she would be right out of the house. Their mom also has had problems with marijuana and cocaine from what ive been told. In other words this is not a good house for T to be living in. T recently ran away from home to the place where D was living and they filed for 30 day custody of T. But now thats over and T is back with her mom. They have been to the authorities and now their mom is being watched for drugs and child abuse.. but child services said that they are going to keep T with her mom because her mom agreed to enroll her in high school but she is going to start as a 17 yr old freshman. T has hopes of getting into a college
but i dont think anything would happen..

So their mom consistanly goes through Ts belongings and i guess awhile ago T would say how she hated her mom and step dad, (and their step dad has had a few strokes) so they are making her feel horrible by saying things like "now T your getting your wish that your step-dad is dying". They wont let her have a cell phone, T has said that when she wakes up she asks God why he let her wake up.. its bad. Their mom does not deserve her kids..

So we are trying to come up with possible actions to get T out of there so maybe she can make something of herself. We are trying to find out if D can file for custody for T because she is 18 and a family member, but we are unsure... Child services wont do anything because her mom enrolled her as a freshman in high school... We are starting to think maybe she should just start running water and opening doors to raise bills and maybe she will get kicked out or in the worst case.. hit.. they do have grandparents but
they cant have custody of her because they live in some retirement home and T would be considered a guest and could only stay for 2 weeks at a time.

I figured i would ask you guys if you had any opinions on this because i really feel sorry for T. I dont know if this is flowing at all and its a really messy situation so i hope you can understand it. Anything you guys can think of would help. Thanks in advance.. and thanks for reading such a long situation..

 

After 18 you don't get child support, because T will no longer be a child.

 

I believe you can still collect support after the child turns 18 if the child is still attending school. Still, that usually only carries out at most an extra 6 months or so before most graduate from high school after turning 18. I think the law on this varies from state to state.

 

Well where I am my dad didn't pay child support after I was 18.

 

T is 17 now until september of 2009. so the mom is still getting child support. the worst possibility is that we would have to let her live there until shes 18 and thus an adult and would legally be allowed to leave. we are looking for a way to get her out of there as soon as possible. thanks for the feedback.