California Family Code 7050 – An emancipated minor shall be considered as being an adult for the …
An emancipated minor shall be considered as being an adult for the following purposes:
(a) The minor’s right to support by the minor’s parents.
Terms Used In California Family Code 7050
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Donee: The recipient of a gift.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
- Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
- Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
- Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Probate: Proving a will
- Proceeding: includes an action. See California Family Code 110
- Property: includes real and personal property and any interest therein. See California Family Code 113
- Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
- Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
- Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by Section 297. See California Family Code 143
- Support: refers to a support obligation owing on behalf of a child, spouse, or family, or an amount owing pursuant to Section 17402. See California Family Code 150
- Testate: To die leaving a will.
(b) The right of the minor’s parents to the minor’s earnings and to control the minor.
(c) The application of Sections 300 and 601 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(d) Ending all vicarious or imputed liability of the minor’s parents or guardian for the minor’s torts. Nothing in this section affects any liability of a parent, guardian, spouse, or employer imposed by the Vehicle Code, or any vicarious liability that arises from an agency relationship.
(e) The minor’s capacity to do any of the following:
(1) Consent to medical, dental, or psychiatric care, without parental consent, knowledge, or liability.
(2) Enter into a binding contract or give a delegation of power.
(3) Buy, sell, lease, encumber, exchange, or transfer an interest in real or personal property, including, but not limited to, shares of stock in a domestic or foreign corporation or a membership in a nonprofit corporation.
(4) Sue or be sued in the minor’s own name.
(5) Compromise, settle, arbitrate, or otherwise adjust a claim, action, or proceeding by or against the minor.
(6) Make or revoke a will.
(7) Make a gift, outright or in trust.
(8) Convey or release contingent or expectant interests in property, including marital property rights and any right of survivorship incident to joint tenancy, and consent to a transfer, encumbrance, or gift of marital property.
(9) Exercise or release the minor’s powers as donee of a power of appointment unless the creating instrument otherwise provides.
(10) Create for the minor’s own benefit or for the benefit of others a revocable or irrevocable trust.
(11) Revoke a revocable trust.
(12) Elect to take under or against a will.
(13) Renounce or disclaim any interest acquired by testate or intestate succession or by inter vivos transfer, including exercise of the right to surrender the right to revoke a revocable trust.
(14) Make an election referred to in Section 13502 of, or an election and agreement referred to in Section 13503 of, the Probate Code.
(15) Establish the minor’s own residence.
(16) Apply for a work permit pursuant to § 49110 of the Education Code without the request of the minor’s parents.
(17) Enroll in a school or college.
(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)