Walk It Through: Turning Eighteen
A lease in their own name, a wedding plan, a pack of cigarettes, and a medical card.
On the day they turn eighteen, a teen signs a lease for an apartment without a parent.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One new adult. Alcohol, a firearm purchase, voting registration at seventeen and a cosigned car loan 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.
- AgeIn the Human Rights Act, the age of 40 or above.
- Legal capacityThe power to make contracts, buy and sell property, sign legal documents and sue or be sued, which no one who has attained the age of eighteen years lacks because of age.
- CaregiverA person with a bureau ID card who may obtain medical cannabis for a patient, serving no more than five patients, while a patient may name up to two.