Kim Young's Argument Of Minor Contract Law

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A. Kim Young, a minor, decided to move out of her parents’ house and live on her own. She was employed full time, so she leased an apartment from Phillip Weaver. She moved in, paid the rent and security deposit, and lived in the apartment for almost three months. Young’s parents kept her room waiting for her and repeatedly asked her to return. Young moved back to her parents’ home eight months before the lease expired and stopped paying rent. Weaver sued her for the unpaid rent. Young argued that apartment was not a necessary so she was not bound by the lease. Was she?

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Kim Young’s argument of the apartment not been necessary since she was a minor is valid. A necessity for many state’s laws are defined as something, “necessary to the position and condition of the minor.” Ms. Young was not displaced out of her parent’s home, therefore she chose to move out on her own, and was not in a position or condition that force her to seek and rent housing. A minor contract is voidable at the minor’s choosing. Phillip Weaver had to have known that Kim Young was a minor, and should had contracted safely with her. The cosigning of one of Kim Young’s adult parents would …show more content…

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