Walk It Through: The Eighteenth Birthday
A lease at eighteen, still a minor until nineteen, a vape, and a wedding that needs a parent's consent.
On her eighteenth birthday, a student signs a lease for an apartment near campus.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One birthday. Emancipation, a marriage at seventeen, and alcohol rules are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Age of majorityNineteen. All persons under nineteen are minors, though a person who marries younger stops being one.
- Trust deedA security instrument with a trustee who holds a power of sale. Cured within the time allowed, it is reinstated as if no acceleration had occurred.
- SolemnizedPerformed by a person authorized by law. A marriage is valid only if the license was used within one year from issuance and the marriage was solemnized.