Legal Question in Juvenile Dependency in Arizona

Re: runaways

Depends. Your best bet is to try to talk with your parents.

You're only a year apart and you're only a year away from being able to do what you want anyway.

Family mediation is a good solution here, because you can all agree that charges won't be brought (although they can't be bound by it, most people try to keep their word).

You and your fiance can also try to agree to a code of conduct your parents find acceptable until you can either reach 18 or obtain emancipation.

You're both young, so accept that maybe you don't know everything there is to know and maybe your parents are trying to do what's best for you. Maybe they don't know, but they have a lot more experience than you, so surely there's some wisdom in what they're saying. You'll need them (assuming they're *not* bad parents) down the road, so this is good practice for being an adult: talk things out and figure out what makes the most sense, not just what you want right now.