{"id":4179,"date":"2016-01-12T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T04:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2016-01-12T22:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T04:12:35","slug":"a-legal-infant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/12\/a-legal-infant\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legal Infant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word\u00a0<em>infant<\/em>\u00a0is often used in legal documents. When it is used in legal documents (court records, land records, probate records, etc.) is is being used in the legal sense&#8211;someone under the age of majority.<\/p>\n<p>This historically\u00a0has been twenty-one years of age, but US states typically now end the legal definition of infancy at eighteen. Readers who have questions about use of the word at a certain point in time should search contemporary state statute.<\/p>\n<p>The key to remember is that someone referred to as an infant in a legal document can easily be sixteen years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day\u00a0<\/em>is sponsored by\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1601GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank<\/a>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1601GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u2013<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1601GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">check out their latest offer for our readers\u2013an annual rate of less than $5 a month<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word\u00a0infant\u00a0is often used in legal documents. When it is used in legal documents (court records, land records, probate records, etc.) is is being used in the legal sense&#8211;someone under the age of majority. This historically\u00a0has been twenty-one years of age, but US states typically now end the legal definition of infancy at eighteen. Readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}