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    Question Can I Move Out at 17 in the State of Texas

    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: TEXAS.

    I am 17 Years old. From what I hear.. 17 Is legal in Texas. I have researched it myself. Some people say you can move out with out Parental Consent. Some say your Parents have to agree. My mother says I am 17 and have to make intelligent Choices.. and mistakes.

    I really need to know if I can move in with my 23 year old Girlfriend. It is also a better living environment and I would be able to get on my feet with her. Can someone please let me know what has to be done. Before I can move out??? Can she call the police and report me or her? What CAN the police do?

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    Default Re: Can I Move Out at 17 in the State of Texas

    If your parents say you can move out, you can. If your parents say you cannot move out, you cannot.

    Although a quirk in the Texas law makes it difficult (not impossible, but difficult) for the police to return home a runaway 17 year old who does not wish to go, there is nothing in the law that prohibits your mother from dragging you home on her own.

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    Default Re: Can I Move Out at 17 in the State of Texas

    This question was addressed this very morning.
    Quote Quoting Mr. Knowitall
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    Although Texas juvenile courts don't have jurisdiction over a seventeen-year-old, so as to treat running away from home as a status offense, there is nothing in Texas law that would prevent a parent of a seventeen-year-old from dragging a runaway, kicking and screaming, back home.

    The Texas statute governing harboring a runaway, Penal Code, Sec. 25.06 (which covers all minors under the age of 18), offers defenses to harboring a runaway that you know to be "absent from the child's home without the consent of the child's parent or guardian for a substantial length of time or without the intent to return" -- within 24 hours of learning that the minor is a runaway, reporting the location of the runaway minor to the person or agency from which a child escaped or, if that's not applicable, notifying a person at the child's home of the child's location, or making a report within that time frame to a law enforcement agency.

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