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Can a parent keep a runaways personal possessions?

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It would be difficult to compel parents to give personal possessions back to a runaway, for the following reason. It would be legally construed that if someone moves out of a residence and leaves some possessions behind, those possessions are abandoned. Certainly a runaway who leaves possessions behind in the home of a parent, has not made any agreement about the storage of those possessions. People are not legally obligated to store the abandoned possessions of other people whom they used to live with.

That said, if you can manage to maintain some degree of civil relationship with your parent, that parent should be willing to return your personal possessions. It is the decent thing to do.

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