Q: So my 17 year old sister got pregnant and she ran away to her boyfriends house.
She told my parents now that she is pregnant she is emancipated. They told her she needs to go to court first to get emancipated but she refused and left. Is that true we live in Florida. Do my parents need to file a runaway child case with the police. Will they get in trouble if she misses school. Do they have the right to tell her to come home or call the cops on the boyfriends parents for sheltering a minor?
A:
No, she is not emancipated simply because she is pregnant. See
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0743/0743ContentsIndex.html&StatuteYear=2019&Title=%2D%3E2019%2D%3EChapter%20743
Your parents certainly may advise the police that she has run away and that the boyfriend's parents are sheltering her.
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