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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by ksherlock on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:49PM (#39833261)
Generally speaking, in the US, contracts with minor (< 18) are voidable, that is, at any time the minor can break the contract. This creates a situation where no one would ever contract with a minor, which is obviously bad (how is an emancipated minor supposed to rent an apartment?) so there are statutory exceptions where the contract will be enforced.
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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by adventured on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:25PM (#39833547)
The minor gets a co-signer for the apartment.

Why would anybody rent to a minor otherwise, regardless of the contract breaking issues. They are unlikely to have much credit history. To say nothing of the maturity / responsibility and income (+ wealth / cash savings) problems.

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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by stonogo on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:58PM (#39833785)
The whole point of emancipating a minor is to empower them with legal decision-making power, in particular the ability to earn and retain wages.

Furthermore it's really hard to interpret your sentence with a meaning other than 'poor people do not deserve housing,' which I have to assume is not your intent.

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