Q: Can an 18 year old legally move out even if her legal guardian says that she can't?
Several years ago, her father tricked her mother into signing over full custody. She is now 18 and has reached out to the mother and I and is wanting to move out of her father's house and move in with us. We are willing to take her in but her father keeps telling her that she cannot move out since she is still in school. We have been told that she has been hit on in her current home (we are unsure if that is true or not) and we are wanting to get her out of there legally and take on responsibility. Her friend lives with her and the friend told us that she had called the cops on the father for hitting on my step daughter but my step daughter is scared of her father and told the cops that her father didn't hit her. What, if anything, can we do to get her out of her current situation legally? We also can't afford to hire a lawyer.
A: If she’s 18 she can live where she wants to. They can’t charge her and no court is going to make her go home if she doesn’t want to.
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