Is is legal for a 17-year-old to leave home in Georgia without legal consequences?

It is not legal to move out of your parents home in Georgia until you are 18 years old. If you move out at 17 than you can be charged with a status offense. That is according to Georgia code § 15-11-2 which says that anyone under the age of 18 can be a status offender.

Status offenses include things such as truancy, running away, and unruly behavior. When it says running away that means moving out of your parents house as well, because your parents will just go ahead and report you as a run away Answer Georgia's law is contradictory. Some police officers are even ignorant about it.So, if one tells you that you can't leave at 17, demand to speak to his/her supervisor.

They must let you talk to their seargent at that time. Here is how it works: In Georgia, a child's parents are responsible for whatever they do until age 18 (barring marriage or military service, which automatically emancipates them)...BUT (and it's a big BUT) a child can now go to prison in Georgia at 17. That created a conflict in the law.

Long story short, a child can leave home at 17, and there's nothing the police or parents can do, but the parents are still responsible for the child's actions unless they go to the court to have the child emancipated. I repeat: THE CHILD CAN LEAVE AT 17, BUT THE PARENTS CANNOT KICK OUT THE CHILD UNTIL 18 Answer I don't know about Georgia Law per se, but your parents would be still liable and they could have you arrested and forcibly go back home until you reach the age of majority (18 in most states, 21 in some others) Answer I see a lot of questions similar to this. The fact is that anybody can leave their parents house when they're big enough to do so.

The police in most state will not force the teenager to return home against their wishes. They might take the teenager into custody if they are in danger where they have decided to go Teenagers leaving their parent's for another home is considered a status crime by the police. They might ask the kid to go home, but will not force them.

It is not until the parents file a court action and convince a judge that it is in the best interests of the teenager to be returned home, and get an order for the police to take the teenager into custody and return them home, will the police actually make you go home Some states may be different (in Idaho in the early 1970's police would forceably return any runaway under the age of 18). Call your police department and ask what they would do. I went and talked to mine today and they told me what I wrote above.

I inquired because my sister in another state could not get the police to return her 15 y/o daughter who decided to live with her friend and her parents.

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