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  • 07-17-2014, 07:54 PM
    Falcon5335
    Can Your Parents Let You Move Out at Age 16
    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Washington
    I was wondering if it is possible for someone to rent me a room under the table, at sixteen. That is with parental permission of course. At sixteen I make enough to financially support myself, and would prefer to move out now. I am presently enrolled in college in the fall and am ready to move out. With parental permission, would I be able to bypass emancipation? Or could my mother sign a lease, or cosign for me? Or is under the table my only option? Any help is much appreciated!
  • 07-17-2014, 07:58 PM
    flyingron
    Re: Moving Out at Sixteen
    Emancipation isn't the process of escaping parental enslavement, but recognition that an independent minor needs relief from certain disabilities such as the inability to enter contracts. If you don't need to sign contracts because your parents will sign for you, you don't really need emancipation. Actually in most places, contracts for necessities (like living space) are enforceable even against minors.
  • 07-17-2014, 08:00 PM
    Dogmatique
    Re: Moving Out at Sixteen
    You'd have to ask the landlord, but I'm confident enough to say that no decent landlord would rent to you.

    As per your other thread, you do not qualify for emancipation - if you WERE completely self-supporting you'd have a perhaps 3-5% chance if you're in King or Pierce county. Any other, and the chances are beyond dismal.
  • 07-18-2014, 05:57 AM
    cbg
    Re: Moving Out at Sixteen
    IF your parents are willing to let you move out, you can move out. You do not need formal or legal emancipation to move out WITH permission.

    NO landlord is required to rent to you, parental permission, parental co-signature, or not. If the landlord does not want an unsupervised teenager living in his space, he does not have to rent to you no matter what your parents say. This would be true EVEN IF you were legally emancipated (which, by your other thread, you would not be).
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