Can I Move Out when I'm 16

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Michigan.
I am 15 about to be 16 on december 17th can I legally move out of my parents house if I have permission? If I dont have permission and I leave anyways can my parents call the cops and put me as a runaway?

If you have your parents permission to move out, you can. If you do not have your parents permission to move out, you cannot.

Yes, if you move out anyway your parents can report you as a runaway to the police.

The age at which you can move out without parental permission is 18.

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Quoting cbg

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If you have your parents permission to move out, you can. If you do not have your parents permission to move out, you cannot.

Yes, if you move out anyway your parents can report you as a runaway to the police.

The age at which you can move out without parental permission is 18.

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correction; in michigan it's 17. An odd situation in the law allows there to be no recourse for a parent to compel a 17 yo to return home. They are not adults until they are 18 but they can leave at 17.


but since the op is only 16 it doesn't make any difference to the op at the moment.

It's more correct to say that Michigan's one of the state's where it's not legal for a child to run away from home at age 17, but due to the legislature's taking 17-year-olds out of the jurisdiction of the juvenile court there's no way to bring a status offense charge to make them return home. The police may choose to stay out of a parent-child dispute given that they're little that they can do about a seventeen-year-old runaway, but that can go two ways -- they may not make the minor go home, but that doesn't mean that they would have any inclination to stop a parent from exercising an appropriate level of parental authority to make an unemancipated minor return home.

Note that even though Michigan has no way of prosecuting a status offense on a 17 year old runway, if you've moved in with someone else, THEY can be arrested for Harboring an Runaway (722.151) which can result in a $500 fine or a year in jail or both.

That law is consistent with juvenile court jurisdiction.

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Quoting MCL 722.151. Aiding or abetting violations by juveniles, or harboring runaways prohibited.

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No person shall knowingly and wilfully aid or abet a child under the age of 17 years to violate an order of a juvenile court or knowingly and wilfully conceal or harbor juvenile runaways who have taken flight from the custody of the court, their parents or legal guardian.

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