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    Default Re: Is It Legal to Date a Fourteen Year Old if I Am Eighteen and His Parents Agree

    There is no single "age of majority" in Alabama. For purposes of the criminal code, you're an adult when you turn 18.

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    Default Re: Is It Legal to Date a Fourteen Year Old if I Am Eighteen and His Parents Agree

    Section 12-15-102
    Definitions.

    When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have the following meanings:

    (1) ADULT. An individual 19 years of age or older.

    (2) AFTERCARE. Conditions and supervision as the juvenile court orders after release from the Department of Youth Services.

    (3) CHILD. An individual under the age of 18 years, or under 21 years of age and before the juvenile court for a delinquency matter arising before that individual's 18th birthday. Where a delinquency petition alleges that an individual, prior to the individual's 18th birthday, has committed an offense for which there is no statute of limitation pursuant to Section 15-3-5, the term child also shall include the individual subject to the petition, regardless of the age of the individual at the time of filing.
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    (18) MINOR. An individual who is under the age of 19 years and who is not a child within the meaning of this chapter.
    http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.../12-15-102.htm

    Section 15-3-5
    Offenses having no limitation.

    (a) There is no limitation of time within which a prosecution must be commenced for:

    (1) Any capital offense;

    (2) Any felony involving the use, attempted use, or threat of, violence to a person;

    (3) Any felony involving serious physical injury or death of a person;

    (4) Any sex offense involving a victim under 16 years of age, regardless of whether it involves force or serious physical injury or death;

    (5) Any felony involving arson of any type;

    (6) Any felony involving forgery of any type;

    (7) Any felony involving counterfeiting; and

    (8) Any felony involving drug trafficking.

    (b) The amendments made by this act shall apply:

    (1) To all crimes committed after January 7, 1985; and

    (2) To all crimes committed before January 7, 1985, for which no statute of limitations provided under pre-existing law has run as of January 7, 1985.

    (c) Nothing herein shall be construed to mean that the adoption of this act indicates that any former statute of limitations applying to capital offenses is invalid as the result of any decision of any court invalidating the capital punishment statutes of the State of Alabama.
    (Code 1852, §401; Code 1867, §3949; Code 1876, §4640; Code 1886, §3707; Code 1896, §5067; Code 1907, §7344; Code 1923, §4928; Code 1940, T. 15, §219; Acts 1984, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-14, p. 16, §§1, 2, 4.)
    http://alisondb.legislature.state.al...975/15-3-5.htm

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