2006 Code of Virginia § 16.1-334 - Effects of order

16.1-334. Effects of order.

An order that a minor is emancipated shall have the following effects:

1. The minor may consent to medical, dental, or psychiatric care, withoutparental consent, knowledge, or liability;

2. The minor may enter into a binding contract or execute a will;

3. The minor may sue and be sued in his own name;

4. The minor shall be entitled to his own earnings and shall be free ofcontrol by his parents or guardian;

5. The minor may establish his own residence;

6. The minor may buy and sell real property;

7. The minor may not thereafter be the subject of a petition under thischapter as abused, neglected, abandoned, in need of services, in need ofsupervision, or in violation of a juvenile curfew ordinance enacted by alocal governing body;

8. The minor may enroll in any school or college, without parental consent;

9. The minor may secure a driver's license under 46.2-334 or 46.2-335without parental consent;

10. The parents of the minor shall no longer be the guardians of the minor;

11. The parents of a minor shall be relieved of any obligations respectinghis school attendance under Article 1 ( 22.1-254 et seq.) of Chapter 14 ofTitle 22.1;

12. The parents shall be relieved of all obligation to support the minor;

13. The minor shall be emancipated for the purposes of parental liability forhis acts;

14. The minor may execute releases in his own name;

15. The minor may not have a guardian ad litem appointed for him pursuant toany statute solely because he is under age eighteen; and

16. The minor may marry without parental, judicial, or other consent.

The acts done when such order is or is purported to be in effect shall bevalid notwithstanding any subsequent action terminating such order or ajudicial determination that the order was void ab initio.

(1986, c. 506; 1990, c. 568; 1993, c. 778.)