Full question:
If I'm 17 years old can I be forced to move with my parents if I don't want to live with them
- Category: Minors
- Subcategory: Age of Majority
- Date:
- State: New York
Answer:
In New York until you are 18 years of age you are considered a minor and subject to the natural guardianship of your parents. Parents have the obligation to support and right to expect that a minor follow their reasonable directions in New York.A "minor" or "infant", as used in this chapter, is a person under the age of eighteen years.N.Y.. Dom. Riel. Law § 2
Even though parents can be ordered to pay child support to age 21, you are considered an adult at age 18. New York Family Court Act § 413. Parents' duty to support child.
New York does not provide for emancipation actions, but recognize construction emancipation. However, this is generally used in connection with the duty of a parent to support a child to age 21 and not general emancipation.
But see http://rochesterfamilylawyer.korotkinlaw.com/2009/01/26/child-support-abandonment-and-constructive-emancipation-of-a-child/
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