An 18-year-old who wants to put herself through college is entitled to court-ordered emancipation over a parent’s objections, an Ocean County judge has ruled.
Superior Court Judge Lawrence Jones rejected her noncustodial father’s resistance, which the judge summed up as “an implicit suggestion” that she “is simply too young at eighteen for entrustment with governing her own life.”
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