Question: If I was charged with being an Incorrigible child would I be forced to move back home?
Answer: Arizona Law (A.R.S. § 8-201(15)) defines an incorrigible child as someone who:
- is determined by the courts to be a child who refuses to obey the reasonable and proper orders or directions of a parent, guardian or custodian, and who is beyond the control of that person;
- routinely or habitually skips school;
- is a runaway from the child's home or parent, guardian or custodian;
- routinely or habitually behaves in such a manner as to injure or endanger the morals or health of self or others;
- commits any act constituting an offense that can only be committed by a minor and that is not designated as a delinquent act; or
- fails to obey any lawful order of a court of competent jurisdiction given in a non criminal action.
As a minor, it is your parents' responsibility to provide proper parental care and control of you. This includes providing adequate food, shelter, and clothing for you. If you don't live with your parents now, then you could be in juvenile detention, in a foster placement, or living with a family member or friend. Upon being charged with an offense, you face being placed in detention. I am sure you are aware that is where people under the age of 18 who commit crimes go to instead of adult jail or prison. If you were already in detention, you won't be released from detention for committing another crime.
If you were living with a family friend or guardian and disrupted your placement with them while being charged as an incorrigible child, the courts would have to determine the most appropriate setting for you. Surely detention would be a consideration. If the people you live with did not want you to return, where you would go hinges on how you got there in the first place. If you were placed with a family member or friend because your parents weren't doing a good job of parenting you, then if the circumstances that caused your parents to lose you still exist, there is a chance you wouldn't return to them.
If CPS or any other state agency was involved in removing you from your parents the first time, that would be taken into consideration when determining where to place you.
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On 06/25/03
amber from NY said:
am i able to move out of my home and in with my fiance. Iam almost nine months pregnet with his child.We want to get are own home.We have found a place to move its still near family.
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On 06/12/03
Me from OH said:
This is what I dont understand. In the last year I have gotten in so much trouble(kinda). It stared out as geting filed as unruley and uncorrijable and they told me the next time I got in trouble I would have to go to a detention. Then my parents suspected me of doing drugs so they tested me and I failed, so I was suposta go to a rehab place, but I never did. Then I moved in with my mom and there I got caught shoplifting, then underage drinking, then shiping school many times, then runaway charges where I was filed as a missing person and filed as unruley again only in a different city. Then I
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On 06/04/03
Jessica Marie from DE said:
I am 18 years old and I want to move out on my own because my mom is not happy with the guys i choose to date. Even though i am consider an adult by the state of Delaware she still tries to control my life. The guy i am talking to is 19 years old and is black, yes i do believe my mom is a racists because she uses the "n" word and i disapprove of that. I am me and I make my decisions on my own without the influence of anyone else,including my friends.She thinks i am trying to "fit in" with my friends but im not she acts like i just started talking to black guys when i started hanging out in ano
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On 05/14/03
sammantha from CA said:
I am 12 years old, and my parents don't work. They have been on welfare for 13 years off and on. I have 2 brothers. My parents have not paid for my school clothes, food, Christmas gifts, school activities, etc. If I need anything, I have to ask my Grandparents. My parents get enough welfare to pay rent. Our phone was recently turned off, because they didn't pay the bill. My dad does drugs and lays around all day. If they lose the apt. we will be on the street. My grandparents have paid the rent before, because the welfare money was used for other things. They don't even get up with u
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On 04/07/03
Brittney from FL said:
im 17 years old and i want to live with my boyfriend and his mother but i am still a minor is there any way that i can still live with him if my mom says its ok?
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