Walk It Through: The Eighteenth Birthday
A first contract, a juvenile record, registering to vote late, and a declaration about treatment.
On turning 18, a student signs a phone contract in their own name.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One eighteenth birthday. Emancipation before 18, the serious juvenile acts sealing treats differently, a first time voter who registered by mail, and the statutory declaration forms 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 majority18, at which a person under no legal disability can enter into any contract and is considered of lawful age, as is a person declared emancipated.
- Conditional registrationRegistering in person at a polling place on election day with a current Nevada driver's license or identification card, after which the voter casts a provisional ballot there before leaving.
- Declaration about life sustaining treatmentA declaration, signed and attested by two witnesses, governing the withholding or withdrawal of life sustaining treatment, which becomes operative when communicated to the attending physician and the declarant is in a terminal condition and no longer able to decide.
- Durable power of attorneyA power of attorney that survives the principal's incapacity. One created under the uniform act is durable unless it expressly provides otherwise.