Sentences with phrase «legal emancipation»

Bazin hired him as a personal secretary and at eighteen Truffaut obtained legal emancipation from his parents and, at last, his independence.

Despite legal emancipation, freedom was an empty word for most domestic workers.

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Whatever legal norms increase the measure of general emancipation to which there is equal access, this measure is less than it might be unless all are subjects of the rights to private and public liberties.

English Roman Catholics were emancipated from centuries - long legal disabilities (by various steps, culminating in unconditional emancipation in 1829).

The legal obligation to pay child support ends with the emancipation of the child.

Emancipation does not, however, necessarily mean «legal majority,» and may be granted earlier in instances where the minor can demonstrate they are at least sixteen years old; are living apart from the parents with their consent or acquiescence; able to manage their own finances and have a legal source of income; actively serve in a branch of the armed forces; or other reason the court may determine it in the best interest of the child to make a judicial declaration of emancipation.

And in the twentieth century, movements pressing for colonial liberation and female emancipation furthered the demand for equal legal protection, building campaigns for human rights on the back of the promise of Magna Carta.

But Texas legal ages laws also govern a minors eligibility for emancipation, the legal capacity for signing a contract or consenting to medical treatment.

After hundreds of years of legal disenfranchisement, emancipation was a major milestone in our ongoing march toward equality in America.

Moreover, Scott's temporary residence outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation under the Missouri Compromise, which the court ruled unconstitutional as it would «improperly deprive Scott's owner of his legal property.»

Each parent still retains a legal responsibility to provide adequate support until the child reaches the age of emancipation.