Younger brother is coming to live with me this summer. How can I proceed with guardianship/care affidavit? [Oregon]

I totally get that.

I’m 18, but I moved out, got my GED and was emancipated at 17, so I’ve been on my own/out of high school for over a year (still pretty fresh, I know).

I make close to $30k/year. I have a full-time office job with benefits and commission. My partner also lives with me and he brings in $2k/month. We both have cars that we own.

It’s a type of security I never had growing up, probably because my parents were horribly irresponsible with money and couldn’t keep a job or a home for more than a year or two at a time. So the financial burden of taking my brother in was the first thing I considered and I wouldn’t be doing this if I felt like I was on shaky ground.

To be fair though, he currently lives in a household of four living off of the state-supplied caregiver pay of one. No one has a car, and they live on the edge of city limits in an already small town with a very unreliable bus system, so leaving the house to go anywhere is a chore. My grandma cares for her disabled son so their mobility is limited, and my mom’s struggles with depression make it hard for her to get herself up at a normal hour. My brother’s access to healthy food is limited because the kitchen is stocked with trash and dirty dishes and his caregivers would usually rather order junk food to be delivered to the house twice a day than cook or buy groceries. My brother struggles to get basic school supplies right now. He hasn’t seen a doctor in probably two years and that was only because he was required to get up to date on vaccines before he was allowed to come back to school. He sleeps in the main room in the basement on a bunk bed built for kids under 8. It’s a combination of mental illness and severe poverty that he needs to get out of asap.

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