Rights at 18 Years of Age

[adjusterjack]

As a minor you did not "own" anything. If it was bought by your parents it's owned by your parents.

If there are particular items that you bought with money you earned at a part time job and you kept the receipts, you can probably squirrel them out of the house and make a good case for keeping them.

If you don't have the receipts, kiss it good bye because the presumption will be that you stole it if you remove it and that could get kind of dicey considering the apparent estrangement you already have.

Understand that you start from scratch if you move out and you'd best be willing and able to get a job, support yourself, and contribute to your friend's family because I can guarantee you that, as much as they like you, their hospitality will wear thin very quickly if you don't contribute.

[PandorasBox]

I would not drop out of school. You have what - 6 weeks til graduation?

By all means, stay with those close family members during that time. Get your grades up as much as you can. Talk to your teachers about extra credit, summer school, whatever it takes to graduate with as good of grades as you can.

Once you graduate - you can concentrate on finding a job that will allow you to help with rent and allow you to save as much as possible towards your own place.

As for your belongings....if parents/grandparents bought it for you, they do not have to let you keep it. If you have the receipt for stuff you purchased yourself, you can keep that, but may have to go to the police or court to get permission to enter and retrieve. I would try talking to parents/grandparents first.

[AnKurrai]

I do not have receipts but I do have everything theyve ever given or bought me in a seperate pile. I've kinda been planning this for a while now. Everything else, both my sets of grandparents have bought me and said its mine. Not sure if thats passable in a court of law though.
I have a resume ready and several locations marked to try to apply when i move out. The family is even prepared to help me. We've known each other for a good twelve years.
For school I don't want to drop out, but this year has been so troubling and just a big hole I've been tryi g to crawl out of and cope with, that I honestly think I'm not gonna graduate. This is why i'm going to talk to my councellor for online options
And really, thank you all so much. I know i'm just a random kid and i may sound typical and bratty and just ready to leave, but thank you so much for all this help you're giving me. I'm just really nervous about doing this, and when i do it i want to make sure they won't be able to hurt or restrain me anymore.

[Dogmatique]

I do not have receipts but I do have everything theyve ever given or bought me in a seperate pile. I've kinda been planning this for a while now. Everything else, both my sets of grandparents have bought me and said its mine. Not sure if thats passable in a court of law though.
I have a resume ready and several locations marked to try to apply when i move out. The family is even prepared to help me. We've known each other for a good twelve years.
For school I don't want to drop out, but this year has been so troubling and just a big hole I've been tryi g to crawl out of and cope with, that I honestly think I'm not gonna graduate. This is why i'm going to talk to my councellor for online options
And really, thank you all so much. I know i'm just a random kid and i may sound typical and bratty and just ready to leave, but thank you so much for all this help you're giving me. I'm just really nervous about doing this, and when i do it i want to make sure they won't be able to hurt or restrain me anymore.

Y'know what? We get many bratty kids coming here. Many are self-entitled whiny little kids who think the world owes them everything.

I don't count you amongst them

[Disagreeable]

If you are so close to graduating,yet might fail a class, talk to guidance about making it up over the summer session locally.

[PandorasBox]

Nor do I.....

You came here with good questions. You didn't pull the "I'm 14 and my parents boss my around" stuff that we see so much....

Good luck to you. I am really pulling for you. Please update us when you can.

[LawResearcherMissy]

Y'know what? We get many bratty kids coming here. Many are self-entitled whiny little kids who think the world owes them everything.

I don't count you amongst them

Ditto. You're a legal adult, and trying to act like one. That's way different from "I'm 15, my mother is such a bitch, she won't let me live with my fiance!" (Believe it, doll. Little baby teenagers thinking they're engaged? All over the place!)

Since you have a plan to leave and supportive people to help you, you might try removing your possessions a few at a time, and taking them over to their house. Clothing, yearbooks/scrapbooks, CDs, portable electronics, etc., anything that is super important to you that you can stash in your backpack and drop off on the way to/from school.

Good luck.

[AnKurrai]

Hello everyone. As of my last post several things have happened.
1) My family was kicked out of my other grandparents hohse where they were staying and now live with the grandparents I was staying with. It has not been fun.
2) I had gotten a job interview and was supposed to go today but due to this next thing they completely prevented me from going.
3) They found out I'm failing and will probably not graduate. i tried reasoning with them calmly while they screamed that i was figuring it out. There is a summer program, online cours, and next year. They didnt care, just proceeded to call me a lot of things i think i shouldnt post here. But constantly brought up i should be ashamed of myself, hate myself, ungrateful, stupid, the usual stuff they say really.

Now they "grounded" me, so to avoid a fight that may get these grandparents in trouble, I'll roll with it i guess? But this is very stressful. Dealing with them when we were distanced was hard enough but now theyre right next door. I think the job is lost. They said theyd reschedule and call me back but she didnt sound to enthusiastic
So i gotta start applying again or hope someone else calls. Thank yoj all for listening

[Disagreeable]

The world is an increasingly difficult place for teens. Especially, when they do not have the positive support of their parents. The highway of life can sometimes be very uneven. The trick is to focus on going in the correct direction, be careful not to go through one of the guardrails and recognize that even though speeding might just get you there faster, it will usually result in you crashing along the way.

[EA1070a]

Do you have anyone else you can turn to? It sounds like you need to get out of there ASAP, and given that you're of legal age, you have the right to do so.