The Ghost Child in My House Deed

Summary

When I tried to enroll my daughter in our newly purchased $500,000 top-tier school district home, I discovered the address's school enrollment spot was already taken.

And inexplicably, my property deed now listed a seven-year-old boy as a resident.

I furiously tracked down the boy's parents, only for the father to brush me off: "My son's already been going there for a year. Deal with it. At most, I'll toss you two grand."

I was losing my mind.

While preparing to sue, I used my status as his new legal guardian to transfer his school enrollment to a rundown school in a mountain town a…