In MN-can I legally evict my 18 yr old even if he is attending high school? If so, who do I contact to start this process?

Why do you want to, if he is attending school, should you not want to help him finish.

Is he doing other things wrong?

He is doing the bare minimum to get D- grades. He was just suspended for smoking. He goes to school maybe 2 days out of 5. The school just keeps shoving him through-doesn't look good on their stats to have failures. He has been suspended many times. We sent him to a boarding school for 7 months to try to get a handle on his life. He works about 4 hrs/week. Comes home only when he feels like it, usually about 4a or so. I have 2 other teens younger. He is dragging our whole house down. I have him seeing a psychologist. He does not have mental illness issues or learning disabilities-strictly behavioral. He tells us that we cannot ask him to move out at 18 if he is going to school. I think he is wrong. Just wondering legally what is correct. Long answer to a 3 year saga. Believe me, we have tried everything we can think of to try and help this kid. He has to want to help himself. Some drug/alcohol use-not as severe as pre-boarding school.

Have you spoken to the school guidance counselor? They should be able to help with this question. It does seem logical to me that social services will not look favorably on kicking him out until he completes high school or gets kicked out..

Thanks, Scott. I have worked with all the school personnel ad nausem. It appears our son might be right. If he is attending school, we are responsible for him till his class graduation date. The system does nothing to protect parents from manipulative, bright horribly behaved kids. Parents are just held hostage. It stinks.

Well, there is a flip side to that story. We are only hearing your side, not his. But, it shouldn't be too much longer before his class graduates.

So make him come home, make him go to school every day, drive him to school, pick up him from school, tough yes, but enforce your rights as a parent.

There are places where behaviorally based troubled kids can be sent as a last ditch wake up call to turn around a failing life. I don't know what resources you have near by but at the very least you have Hazelden there and a call to them might yield you some very hopeful information. It may be a blessing in disguise that he hasn't finished school yet, if you think about it. You might be only a few phone calls away from getting out from under feeling held hostage and do something drastically positive about your son's problems too.

I know your pain. I have a special needs child and it takes so much out of me as well as my husband and other children. My advice to you would be try to hang in there a little long, you will thank yourself and someday he will appreciate it. (hopefully) I'm not here to judge you, because I really do understand. I don't know anything on the legal part of it.

The fact that he's still in high school could be a stumbling block. Most states don't consider anyone who's still in high school to be emancipated or eligible for emancipation (unless they have child(ren)), regardless of age, at least not until he reaches 21. Check with you lawyer to be sure.

I have him seeing a psychologist. He does not have mental illness issues or learning disabilities-strictly behavioral. He tells us that we cannot ask him to move out at 18 if he is going to school.
I can't see a psychologist being able to help change the behavior of an adult (yup, 18) that seems to be acting like a selfish baby and doesn't appear to want to change. Hmmm...