Title 14, Domestic Relations and Persons

No person, other than the parents, may assume the permanent care and custody of a child, unless authorized so to do by an order or decree of a court having jurisdiction, except that a parent, upon giving written notice to the department of health and human services and human serv…

1. Any individual who by any act willfully encourages, causes, or contributes to the delinquency of a minor or the condition of a child in need of protection as defined in section 27-20.2-01 is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. 2. Any individual who by any act willfully encourages…

A minor, while under the supervision or custody of the juvenile court or the superintendent of the North Dakota youth correctional center, may not marry without the order of the juvenile court or of the superintendent of the North Dakota youth correctional center, as the case may…

Every person to whom an infant has been confided for nursing, education, or any other purpose, who, with intent to deceive any parent or guardian of such child, substitutes or produces to such parent or guardian another child in the place of the one so confided, is guilty of a cl…

A minor cannot give a delegation of power. A person under the age of eighteen may not make a contract relating to real property or any interest therein or relating to any personal property not in that person's immediate possession or control.

Unless otherwise provided by the laws of this state, a minor may make any contract other than contracts specified in section 14-10-09 in the same manner as an adult, subject only to the minor's power of disaffirmance.

In all cases other than those specified in sections 14-10-12 and 14-10-13, the contract of a minor may be disaffirmed by the minor personally, either before the minor's majority or within one year's time afterwards, or in case of the minor's death within that period, by the minor…

A minor cannot disaffirm a contract, otherwise valid, to pay the reasonable value of things necessary for the minor's support or that of the minor's family, if such contract is entered into by the minor when not under the care of a parent, guardian, or conservator able to provide…

A minor cannot disaffirm an obligation, otherwise valid, entered into by the minor under the express authority or direction of a statute.

A minor is capable of entering a binding undertaking for the purpose of securing the minor's release on bail in the same manner and with the same effect as if the minor were an adult.

A child conceived but not born is to be deemed an existing person so far as may be necessary for its interests in the event of its subsequent birth.

Any person of the age of fourteen years or older may contract for and receive examination, care, or treatment for sexually transmitted disease or substance use disorder without permission, authority, or consent of a parent or guardian.

1. A minor may contract for and receive emergency examination, care, or treatment in a life-threatening situation without the consent of the minor's parent or guardian. If a minor has an emergency medical condition or the potential for an emergency medical condition, consent to e…

An individual who is at least sixteen years of age may donate blood on a voluntary and noncompensatory basis without obtaining the consent of the individual's parent or guardian. Any notification of a medical condition must be mailed to the donor and the donor's parent or guardia…

1. a. A physician or other health care provider may provide pregnancy testing and pain management related to pregnancy to a minor without the consent of a parent or guardian. b. A physician or other health care provider may provide prenatal care to a pregnant minor in the first t…

1. As used in this section, "unaccompanied homeless minor" means a minor fourteen years of age or older living in one of the situations described in 42 U.S.C. 11434a(2) and who is not in the care and physical custody of a parent or legal guardian. 2. An unaccompanied homeless min…