My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Michigan
A young woman we know is planning to leave home as soon as she turns 17. In Michigan, she can do this and there are no legal avenues her father can take to force her to return home or place her under court supervision for the act of leaving. She has two good, healthy, stable options for a place to go, but neither one is in the school district in which her father lives and transportation to/from school would be a hardship if not an impossibility for either family. She also has one much less positive, less stable option that is in her current school district (living with her boyfriend).
So my question is, would she be able to change schools on her own? She's old enough to drop out, which is my fear for her because she's that desperate to get away from her abusive, controlling father, so it seems like she should also be old enough to enroll on her own but I've read that 17 year olds still need their parents to return to school after dropping out which makes me think she would still need her father's consent.
A young woman we know is planning to leave home as soon as she turns 17. In Michigan, she can do this and there are no legal avenues her father can take to force her to return home or place her under court supervision for the act of leaving. She has two good, healthy, stable options for a place to go, but neither one is in the school district in which her father lives and transportation to/from school would be a hardship if not an impossibility for either family. She also has one much less positive, less stable option that is in her current school district (living with her boyfriend).
So my question is, would she be able to change schools on her own? She's old enough to drop out, which is my fear for her because she's that desperate to get away from her abusive, controlling father, so it seems like she should also be old enough to enroll on her own but I've read that 17 year olds still need their parents to return to school after dropping out which makes me think she would still need her father's consent.
Runaways: Enrolling in School Without Parent's Support
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