Age of Majority

[BOR]

It sounds as if the OP is trying to argue that he and/or his brother should be considered dependent adults for some reason.

Absent some form of legal determination as a result of some form of disability, they are adults at 18.

Agreed, unless one has a developmental disability or Trisomy 21 or such and are NOT able to survive alone, the AOM is an automatic emancipation.

In some states, as I am sure you know, the adult criminal prosecution age is 17. Seems at odds with the adult AOM?

It may be a real cruddy thing to up and leave two young adults who are ill prepared for the world to fend for themselves, but it is not - by itself - unlawful.

Exactly and well said. How many are on thier own at 18 or 20 unless in College or such living in a dorm, it's not like they can get a job making 50 grand a year.

MANY live at home while going to College, I did. Working part time and going to College and all of a sudden the Parents say goodbye, you are 18, too bad!

 

[CdwJava]

Exactly and well said. How many are on thier own at 18 or 20 unless in College or such living in a dorm, it's not like they can get a job making 50 grand a year.

MANY live at home while going to College, I did. Working part time and going to College and all of a sudden the Parents say goodbye, you are 18, too bad!

CA has enacted laws recently to help support kids coming out of foster care for a few years into adulthood because they were finding that kids bounced into the world after years in foster care ended up failing and falling into a life of crime or poverty.

They have a number of programs geared solely towards this target group to help them succeed.

Unfortunately, there is not a lot there to help kids whose parents are dunderheads and then kick them to the curb at adulthood.

 

[stmfitr636]

It may be a real cruddy thing to up and leave two young adults who are ill prepared for the world to fend for themselves, but it is not - by itself - unlawful.

Exactly and well said. How many are on thier own at 18 or 20 unless in College or such living in a dorm, it's not like they can get a job making 50 grand a year.

MANY live at home while going to College, I did. Working part time and going to College and all of a sudden the Parents say goodbye, you are 18, too bad!

I think that this is purely speculative. Who knows what kind of assclown the kid's been for the years leading up to AOM.