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On Your Own: Guide to Your Legal Rights and Responsibilities as an Adult is prepared as a public service. It was put together by the Kansas Bar Association and the Kansas Bar Foundation.
What is Emancipation?
Emancipation means you are legally separated from your parents or guardian and do not have to live with them.
The law in Kansas emancipates you when you are 18 years old.
Having a baby does not make you legally emancipated.
Your parents cannot emancipate you so they are no longer legally responsible for financially providing for you.
It is possible to become emancipated prior to the age of 18, which is called an Emancipated Minor.
Kansas Legal Services wants to help Kansans who need legal services, but we also want to help Kansans who decide to represent themselves in court.
We have put together two videos. One video describes the best ways to get ready to go to court. The other video tells you what to expect once you are actually in court.
Please view either video, or both, and give us your feedback in one or more of the links below.
Check out two videos to help you know your rights in debt collection and also how to deal with debt collectors.
The links are here:
How Sealed or Expunged Court Records in Tenant & Employment Screening Reports May Illegally Cost People Jobs & Housing
From the National Consumer Law Center, June, 2022
Today, to rent an apartment or nail down a job, you almost always have to pass a background check.
Kansas Legal Services offers five different videos to help you help yourself with different legal issues!
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