Q: I am 18 years old is it considered kidnapping if I decide to go to my boyfriend house even though I have disabilities
But I am capable of making decisions and able to understand sertant things can my parents call the cops if I do decided to go to my boyfriends house
A:
If you are not subject to either a conservatorship or guardianship with your parents as legally appointed guardians, once you become 18 years old you have reached the age of majority and are free to make whatever life decisions you feel are best for you.
One of your rights is the freedom to associate with whomever you choose, another is the right to travel anywhere.
Kidnapping is the taking of a person by another with force or threats and restricting their movements by confining the person in a home, room or other place and depriving that person of the right to move or go somewhere else.
Penal Code § 207 (a) defines kidnapping: "(a) Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, steals or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this state, and carries the person into another country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county, is guilty of kidnapping."
Hope this answers your questions. Good luck to you.
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