Running Away to Another State

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Missouri and Kentucky. At 17 in missouri you can move out without parental consent, in Kentucky you can't move out in till you're 18. Can I legally move from Missouri to kentucky without parental consent?

In Missouri, an anomaly in the law makes it difficult for law enforcement to force a 17 year old to return home. That is not the same thing as it being legal for you to leave home without parental consent. There is nothing in Missouri law that says your parents can't come after you themselves and drag your under-aged ass back home on their own.

An incident happened and I was 16 at the time and the cops got involved and I asked if I could legally leave my home without my parents permission and he told me the day I turn 17 I can leave without my parents permission and no one can do anything about it.

Where did that cop go to law school?

I don't know I didn't ask him I just asked if I could leave

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Quoting laelaekiki

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I don't know I didn't ask him I just asked if I could leave

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The point being, there are laws. Most of the time, local law enforcement have only a limited amount of legal knowledge.

In other words, don't believe everything you were told.

What he probably (hopefully) told you was that at 17 you could leave home and that the POLICE could not drag you back home and there would be no law that would make such leaving unlawful on its own. However, other laws might apply concerning custodial interference, encouraging delinquency, ad nauseum.

Better to wait until you are 18. Then you can leave without fear of mom and dad coming back to drag you home or run the risk of your friends getting into legal trouble for helping you.

We talked to my mom because I told him I wanted to move out and he told her about it and she said she won't let me and then he sat down with both of us and said the day I turn 17 I can leave and no one not even my mom can do anything about it because the law says at 17 you can leave. And I'm wanting to move in with a friend in Kentucky could be actually get into trouble for helping me even though I'm 17?

The cop was wrong. The law does NOT say that at 17 you can leave.

Yes, your friend in KY could be in trouble for helping you.

In Kentucky, a 17-year-old runaway may be picked up by the police, detained, and taken to juvenile court for the status offense of running away.