CHAPTER 6-7
EMANCIPATION

6-7-1 Rights of Majority.

The Court shall have the authority to confer upon minors the rights of majority, concerning contracts and real and personal property, and to authorize and empower minors to purchase, hold, possess and control in their own person and right, and without interaction or control of a guardian or trustee, any goods, chattels, rights, interests in land, tenements and effects by such minor lawfully acquired or inherited; and such minor shall have full power to hold, convey and dispose of the same, and to make contracts and be subject to all the liabilities incident thereto, sue and be sued, and in all respects to exercise and shall enjoy all rights of property and contract in the same manner and to the same extent as person at the age of majority.

6-7-2 Petition Contents.

Any minor desiring to obtain the rights of majority as set forth in this chapter may, by his or her next friend, or any legal parent, guardian or custodian on behalf of the minor child, file a petition stating the name, age and residence of the child, the names and residences of the minor’s parents, guardian, or other legal custodian, and the person or cause for which the rights of majority are sought.

6-7-3 Notice.

The Court shall issue a summons to the minor child and the parents, guardian or other legal custodian as set forth in Section 6-3-3 and 6-3-4.

6-7-4 Hearing.

Upon proof in open court of the truth of the allegations in such petition and that said petitioner is a person of sound mind and able to transact his or her own affairs and that the interest of the minor child shall be promoted thereby, the court in its may in its discretion, order and decree that the petitioner be empowered to exercise the rights of the majority for any and all purpose; and therefore such order and decree shall be entered on the records of said court; and therefore all acts by said petitioner done and performed concerning any contract, rights in action, or interests in real or personal property, shall have the same force, validity and effect as if by a person of full age.

(Enacted by PBP TC No. 96-03, January 5, 1996; amended by PBP TC No. 2006-141, July 20, 2006. amended by PBP TC No. 2010-055, March 4, 2010; amended by PBP TC No. 2013-145, July 15, 2013.)