The age of consent in Alabama is sixteen years. If a child below the age of sixteen has consensual sex the adult can be charged with rape second. This is a felony offense that includes fine cost and prison time. The most servere punishment is not prison time it is the Alabama Sex Offender Notification Act. This act requires the person to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
You must be at least sixteen years old to get a driver's license in Alabama. You must be at least fifteen years old to get a learner's permit. If you are under eighteen, you need to have had a learner's permit for at least six months before you may apply for a driver's license. You have a restricted driver's license if you are sixteen or if you are seventeen and have had the license for less than six months. There are two general restrictions on this license. First, you may not drive your car after midnight. Second, you may not drive with more than four people in your car excluding parents or legal guardians.
The legal age to marry without parental consent is eighteen. People who are sixteen or seventeen years old may marry with the consent of both parents. Prospective brides and grooms should bring a certified copy of their birth certificate to the courthouse to obtain a marriage license. Both parents must present valid identification and consent in writing, for someone aged sixteen, seventeen or eighteen to marry.
The age of majority, in the state of Alabama, is nineteen years of age for an unmarried person and eighteen years of age for married persons, widows or widowers. Any person in this state, at the arrival at the age of nineteen years, shall be relieved of his disabilities of minority and thereafter shall have the same legal rights and abilities as persons over twenty-one years of age. No law of this state shall discriminate for or against any person between and including the ages of nineteen and twenty-one years solely on the basis of age. (Code of Alabama) The definition of age of majority is: "The age when a person acquires all the rights and responsibilities of being an adult." The rights of the parent, in the state of Alabama, are transferred to the child, when the child turns nineteen.
It is unlawful for any minor to purchase, use, possess, or transport tobacco or tobacco products within the state of Alabama. It is unlawful for anyone under the age of twenty-one to buy or consume alcohol in Alabama.
Alabama law prohibits anyone from selling, giving or lending a handgun to any person under age eighteen. Alabama law also prohibits the delivery of a handgun to any person under the age of eighteen.
Finally you must be nineteen years of age in Alabama to decide which parent you will live with until then it is up to a judge to decide who has custody.
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