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Federal law considers any person under the age of 18 to be a minor. That person is not able to enter into a contract and cannot be held accountable to any contract they might sign.

The issue can become somewhat more confusing if the minor is involved with a criminal act. While still a minor, the juvenile can be tried as an adult in some cases, if he is deemed to be competent enough to realize his actions were criminal in nature. Yet, even in the event that a minor is convicted of a felony and sentenced to prison incarceration, he is still considered a minor, and must be segregated from the adult population by the states' Departments of Corrections, and housed with others of his age until he is released or reaches the age of twenty-one.

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