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adult One who has gained the age of majority, usually 18 or 21 depending on the state. Sometimes, younger people can take legal steps to remove the “disabilities of nonage,” after which they will be treated as legal adults even though under the requisite age. Only adults have the legal capacity to enter into contracts or sell property. Minors may own real estate, but, because of the inability to enter contracts, they cannot effectively manage it, obtain a mortgage, or sell the property. If such actions should prove necessary, the child's legal guardian will usually have to ask a court for permission for the proposed action.The court will then appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the child's interests, in case the guardian has a conflict of interest or clouded judgment. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| ``When you peel back the veneer of adultness, there are really
just a bunch of kids that are willing to stay their
skepticism. Like Renata
Adler's jeremiads against the avant-garde in Toward A Radical
Middle (1969), it pitted its imperious adultness against a perceived
culture of mushrooming infantilism, and sometimes cited little
well-intended things that didn't quite work as powerful, malefic
symptoms of regression. Maybe he and Kobe get this weird attack of adultness. |
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