Your Rights at 18

When you are 18, you are allowed to:

  • vote
  • sue or be sued
  • perform professionally abroad
  • serve on a jury
  • get tattooed
  • buy cigarettes and tobacco
  • buy and drink alcohol in a bar 
  • buy fireworks
  • leave home
  • marry or register a civil partnership
  • make a Will
  • you cannot be made a ward of the court
  • own land, buy a house or flat & apply for a mortgage
  • if adopted, apply to see a copy of original birth certificate

 

Page last updated: Dec 18 2007
Connexions is part of Cambridgeshire County Council