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    Default What Can Happen if a Minor Moves Out the Day Before Turning Eighteen

    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: California

    My situation:

    I just turned seventeen. I've been a high school graduate since October 2015, and I'm currently attending community college as a straight-A sophomore student almost ready to transfer to a University. I also have my own part-time job which pays me a little more than minimum wage, and I've been saving a great deal of the money I've earned. My plans are to move out immediately when I turn 18. I'm also considering moving out the day before my birthday. The reason I think that would be necessary is because my grandmother's birthday is the day of my birthday, so it's not an easy day to leave them while they have their backs turned. I've been a runaway twice in the past. When I was fourteen, I was caught in San Francisco (I'm from Los Angeles) and when I was fifteen, I was caught on an Amtrak train heading east.

    If my parents call about me missing, will it be ignored because I will turn 18 the next dayt? They know I've run away in the past. They probably won't claim something drastic like a kidnapping.

    I'm very excited to move out. It disgusts me how my parents can abuse me physically then get away with it. The nerve they have to brag about me to relatives and friends about being in college so early after I was treated like dirtshit. I wish there was a way that I could block them from my life, remove them from my documents etc. I'm sorry for venting, but I guess that's the teenage rage that I still have left in me before turning 18. Or am I just human? Anyway, there won't be anyway consequences, right? I will be taking all of my belongings. Clothes, computer, phone etc... all which was bought with my own money. I don't feel like they deserve an explanation, so they won't know until they notice my stuff is gone.

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    Default Re: What Consequences Can Transpire if I Move Out the Day Before My Birthday

    If you move out the day before you turn 18, there's probably not much that will be done. Where do you plan to live? A part time job just won't cut the mustard for living expenses. It's a tough world out there.

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    Default Re: What Consequences Can Transpire if I Move Out the Day Before My Birthday

    A full blown home like an apartment at $2,000/month is not where I plan to live. I suppose renting a room with other college students for about a quarter of that amount or less. I just plan to stay there until I'm ready to transfer to a University. I can get a dorm room and loans. I know debt is horrible, but at least I'm a transfer student. It'll be half of most student's college debts tend to be. Being in college at a younger age has opened many doors for me. Especially those that contain scholarships.

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    Default Re: What Consequences Can Transpire if I Move Out the Day Before My Birthday

    Is any of the money that you will be using for school and to live off of connected to your parents ? In other words, did they have to sign anything before you could get it ?

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    Default Re: What Consequences Can Transpire if I Move Out the Day Before My Birthday

    Good thought, all previous FAFSA applications have involved your parents income. Scholarships, grants and student loans likewise may be at issue. What about transportation to carry away your computer, clothing, etc.? If your transportation is in your parents name, and they are carrying the insurance, that could be a serious problem. It would be much smarter to simply comply and stay around until you get into an apartment situation and get yourself set up before you make any big moves instead of throwing it all to the wind the day BEFORE you turn 18, or after in a grand gesture.

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    Default Re: What Consequences Can Transpire if I Move Out the Day Before My Birthday

    Not to mention that FAFSA will still require your parents' input and income. Living on your own is not sufficient - by itself - to cut those financial aid ties. I know, I have had three boys deal with FAFSA and two of them were not living at home when they applied and we STILL had to access and input our income for their financial aid applications even though we no longer claimed either as dependents (because they chose to pay their own way because they felt that was the responsible thing to do). So, Nicholas, while you may want to keep them out of your life, there are a number of ways they might still be there.

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    Default Re: What Consequences Can Transpire if I Move Out the Day Before My Birthday

    Quote Quoting nicholas199917
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    A full blown home like an apartment at $2,000/month is not where I plan to live. I suppose renting a room with other college students for about a quarter of that amount or less. I just plan to stay there until I'm ready to transfer to a University. I can get a dorm room and loans. I know debt is horrible, but at least I'm a transfer student. It'll be half of most student's college debts tend to be. Being in college at a younger age has opened many doors for me. Especially those that contain scholarships.
    Until you turn 24, you cannot get financial aid/student loans without the cooperation of your parents. Their income information needs to be included on your FASFA. So, you had better think twice about your plan to cut them out of your life. If you do so, you will not only be covering your living expenses by yourself but you will also be paying for college without any financial aid.

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