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If I were to disappear when I'm 18, can my parents hunt me down?

Yea I really don't get along with my parents, especially my mother. I'm 17, I have a job and get a steady income, but my mom sees it fit to take my money and spend it to her own liking. I really hate that and other things she does. I plan to leave when I'm 18 and done with high school, and go live with a friend for a couple months until I can find somewhere of my own. Will my parents be able to hunt me down and force me to live with them?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Once you turn 18 you can do what you want.

    Your parents can file a missing person report with the police to try to find you. Or they could hire a private detective to locate you.

    But once you turn 18 they cannot make you live with them.

    I married a woman who had 2 teenagers. After the kids turned 18, but before they moved out - I made them pay $25/week as rent. I saved the rent money each week. Once they moved out, I waited 6 months and then gave them back all of their rent money. I knew if I let them keep the money while they were teenagers - they would not save for their future events. And that they would underestimate how much money they would need once they were living on their own. Now that they are 40 and 38, we have good laughs about them paying the $25/week rent and they offer to pay $50/week if I will only allow them to come back home. But its all a joke.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't like your parents either. Well that's is a good plan you got there.You should do this save some of your money where your sure nobody will take it like your mom and then use it when your 18 to get an apartment. They can't force you live with them because at 18 your a legal adult.

  • 1 decade ago

    You will be reported missing, like someone else said, and then the authorities will come looking for you not because you've done anything wrong, but because people are concerned for your welfare.

    We all have these free dreams when we're teenagers but I promise that once you get on your own you'll wish you were 17 again.

    Source(s): 20 years old and finding out that being on my own is not all that great.
  • 1 decade ago

    I think in most jurisdictions your parents may be able to hunt you down, but at 18 they won't be able to force you to do anything you don't want to do.

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  • 4 years ago

    you would be waiting to desire to have a accumulating alongside with your father and mom. discover a time the area you may be able to desire to all meet jointly and sit down them down and tell them how this is making you adventure. given which you will desire to no longer adventure you may be able to desire to censor your thoughts basically to lead far from hurting theirs. this isn't any longer sincere to the two one among you. as an party, collectively as she pronounced she feels stupid purely prestige outdoors the waiting room then dazzling then and there you may be able to desire to've on the spot her the way you felt approximately her coming in there besides. and that i pay interest to that for the time of the process a few circumstances you're telling her to supply up particular subject concerns (like with the hair brushing), so as a results of reality of this you may be waiting to desire to sit down them down and reason them to comprehend which you sense such as you're easily no longer being handled such as you're 18 and this hurts you. purely be open after which enable them to grant you their factor. Compromise and verbal substitute are the final to a great courting. In a great courting the two components are satisfied. as quickly as you're even nevertheless unhappy as quickly as you adult adult males communicate, then enable them to pay interest to. in the event that they love then you definitely definately they are going to comprehend that making you unhappy is the wonderful factor they could wanna do, and in the event that they see that that's what they have been doing, then they are going to adventure undesirable and attempt to modify, i'm constructive of it.

  • kim h
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    They cannot make you stay there once you are an adult and done with school. Open up a bank account and put your money there. Your mother should not be taking your money.

  • 1 decade ago

    No your parents can't make you live with them since you will legally be an adult.

    PS Why would you give her your money?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well that can hire someone to find you, but legally once you are 18, they dont have ANY say over you.

    She is going to have to find a way to support her lifestyle other than stealing from her son!

  • 1 decade ago

    if u change yr name u wud b alot harder 2 track down.

  • 1 decade ago

    they wont "hunt u down" but probabbly repot a missing child (young adult)

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