Walk It Through: The Record
Seventeen and wanting out, a juvenile case at nineteen, a registration calendar that runs two ways, and a jury summons the boss does not like.
You are seventeen and want out of the house. You have heard about emancipation papers.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
This walkthrough covers the age of majority beside the unruly child definition, the juvenile sealing and expungement sections, the registration calendar, and the jury service protection. It does not cover what a juvenile court does with an unruly complaint, which adjudications may be sealed or the adult sealing route, tier classification or juvenile and out of state registrants, or excuses and deferrals from jury service. A licensed Ohio attorney, the county juvenile court, and the court that issued a summons are who answer those.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
8 words · tap one for its definition
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Appointed counselCounsel provided at public expense to a defendant who cannot afford one, required in any case where imprisonment is actually imposed.
- DegreeThe classification every Ohio offense carries, from minor misdemeanor up to felony of the first degree. The degree sets the available range before anyone looks at the facts.
- Liquidated damagesA figure fixed in advance by statute or contract rather than proved after the fact. On unpaid wages it is six percent of the amount unpaid or two hundred dollars, whichever is greater.
- Habitual truantA child of compulsory school age absent without legitimate excuse for thirty or more consecutive hours, forty two or more hours in a school month, or seventy two or more hours in a school year.
- Unruly childA category a juvenile court adjudicates, defined to include a child who does not submit to the reasonable control of a parent, teacher, guardian or custodian by reason of being wayward or habitually disobedient, a habitual truant, and a child whose behavior endangers health or morals.
- Community controlCourt supervision imposed instead of a prison term, with conditions set by the court. Ohio replaced the word probation with this term for felony sentencing.
- Final dischargeRelease from parole or probation, which is the event a juvenile sealing application is measured from. A person under eighteen may apply six months after it, and a person eighteen or older may apply immediately after it.
- Post release controlSupervision by the adult parole authority after a prison term, required for some degrees and discretionary for others. Violations can carry additional prison time.