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I'm 22. Can my parents do this legally?

Asked by Kairi (794points) August 13th, 2013

I am 22 and live at home. I’m trying to move out but I don’t have the funding yet. My parents are threatening to throw away my stuff because they have deemed it ‘childish’ as punishment for me getting into a car accident in another state, when I wasn’t supposed to be driving that far away and was supposed to leave the car in NY while I bussed down to Maryland. They are also taking my entire paycheck and leaving me completely broke because they ‘need it’ to pay for damages that insurance will probably cover anyway. They claim they can throw out my stuff because it’s their house.

Can they legally take away my paycheck and throw away my possessions? Let alone forbid me form leaving the house and not allow me to?

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