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Legal Professional:what state?
pastordude:California
Legal Professional:"CALIFORNIA CODES PENAL CODE SECTION 270-273.75 270.5. (a) Every parent who refuses, without lawful excuse, to accept his or her minor child into the parent's home, or, failing to do so, to provide alternative shelter, upon being requested to do so by a child protective agency and after being informed of the duty imposed by this statute to do so, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500). (b) For purposes of this section, "child protective agency" means a police or sheriff's department, a county probation department, or a county welfare department. (c) For purposes of this section, "lawful excuse" shall include, but not be limited to, a reasonable fear that the minor child's presence in the home will endanger the safety of the parent or other persons residing in the home."
Legal Professional:If a minor child is disrespectful, hurtful, or truant you
Legal Professional:must go to court and present your lawful excuse to a judge. Only if the judge finds the excuse viable
Legal Professional:can you do it
Legal Professional:helping?
pastordude:This is NOT a minor child. He is eighteen, dropped out last year, attended a year of JC, while living with bio parent and step parent. He passed his class but got his 6th speeding ticket in the last year and had his license revoked. He decided to go back to high school but is not attending clas on a regular basis and has been using pot, been caught once by Nevada police in possesion with, and generally has an "entitlement" attitude that prevents him from obeying the house rules etc.
pastordude:Can we ask him to leave legally?
Legal Professional:I believe you can
Legal Professional:18 appears to be the age of majority
Legal Professional:So yes
Legal Professional:good luck and god bless

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Answered:	4/4/2008

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