emancipated minor
Self-governing young person
An emancipated minor is a person under the legal age of adulthood who has been granted the legal rights of an adult, typically through court order, marriage, or military service.
Emancipation frees the minor from parental control and allows them to make their own decisions about finances, medical care, and living arrangements: As an emancipated minor, she could sign her own lease.
- teenagerPerson aged thirteen-nineteen
- independenceFreedom from external control
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- family courtTribunal for household legal matters
- court orderBinding judicial directive
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- juvenile lawjuvenile law, juvenile court, juvenile courts, juvenile justice, juvenile rights
- legal capacitylegal capacity, mental capacity, capacity, incapacity, competence
emancipated minorward of the state
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