Consider that a problem to solve.

Do you have a case worker by any chance? I would tell them about this.

This is incredibly likely.

Unfortunately, as a minor, you don’t really get to have property or make contracts. Your parents sold your silver to pay their bills and made choices you disagree with. You didn’t fuck up. They did.

The good news is that while you did lose something of immense sentimental value, you didn’t lose that much money. It feels like a lot now but the hundreds of dollars your parents wasted showing you who they are is a drop in the bucket compared to what you can save by prepping to be independent when you turn 18.

I hate it for you, friend, but this is one of those things that is best assigned to tuition in the school of life and is only wasted if you don’t get the best lesson out of it.

Lol- of course it’s Montana, the one state in the union where employment law is still almost ok.

If you’re an attorney, you should

1. Know how exhausting it is to hear people start sentences with “I’m an attorney”. 

2. You should know that “fireable offenses” have nothing to do with anymore in our capitalist hellscape.

3. You don’t need any more liability than anyone upstream who sees this photo and didn’t want it to be public. That could be Elton just wanting to be private. That could be someone who bought it for Elton not wanting the surprise ruined. That could be a manager who wants to be able to promise future customers discretion.

So…. Go be a lawyer somewhere else where you know what you’re talking about.