What to Do if an Adult Child Takes Your Property When Moving Out
My question involves criminal law for the state of: Ohio
What is the law involving adult children who move out of your home and leave possessions? How long do they have the right to enter your home without your permission or without you being home? How does the law determine who owns what? If an adult child moves out, leaves a note notifying you that they have moved out, advised you in person when you contact them....that they no longer wish to have contact with you and that they will not be returning......do they have a right to enter your home at any time because they have a key? Or come through a window? How can you legally notify them that it will be considered trespassing if they enter your property? These adult children managed to remove quite a few things that did not belong to them....and left quite a few things that did. Our local sheriff advises that they have the right to enter the home because they lived their previously. There has to be a limit on this.
Thanks for your help in advance!
Re: When Adult Children Move Out of Your Home
Their right to enter your home lasts only as long as you grant permission. Basically once they leave they have no right to return and enter your home unless you permit it.
While Ohio law says any who without privilage enter a property are guilty of trespass. I suppose it could get into semantics as to whether they retain the privilage or entering your home, to make it clear you should tell them they are not welcome to return or return only upon conditions you specify.
As to who who owns what; what they purchase is theirs. What you purchased and gave to them is theirs. What you let them use while they lived with you is yours. Sometimes proving any of the above is a problem.
Re: When Adult Children Move Out of Your Home
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My question involves criminal law for the state of: Ohio
What is the law involving adult children who move out of your home and leave possessions? How long do they have the right to enter your home without your permission or without you being home? How does the law determine who owns what? If an adult child moves out, leaves a note notifying you that they have moved out, advised you in person when you contact them....that they no longer wish to have contact with you and that they will not be returning......do they have a right to enter your home at any time because they have a key? Or come through a window? How can you legally notify them that it will be considered trespassing if they enter your property? These adult children managed to remove quite a few things that did not belong to them....and left quite a few things that did. Our local sheriff advises that they have the right to enter the home because they lived their previously. There has to be a limit on this.
Thanks for your help in advance!
Have All the locks changed. Check All the windows and be sure they are locked. Being a parent does not mean you have to be a doormat.