What you are allowed to do on your own?

To find out more about your rights, check out Rights of the minor.

Although you are a minor, the law does allow you to do certain things with your property. Depending on your age and how mature you are, you are allowed to:

work (as a newspaper carrier, for example) provided your job does not violate the Act respecting Labour Standards;
use your salary or pocket money to buy everyday items (like sports equipment, CDs, an MP3 player, a bicycle, concert tickets, etc.);
ask a lawyer to represent you.

If you are 14

Once you are 14, as well as being allowed to do what you want with your earnings from your job, craft or sport, you can do everything connected with it (so you can buy a guitar if you are a musician, or rent a work space for your craft, and so on).

And at 14, by law, you have the right to be informed: so your parents, or your dative tutor, have to give you a copy of the same administration report they give once a year to the tutorship council and the Curateur public.

If you are 16

You are allowed to:

become a salaried employee;
join a union;
name a beneficiary in a life insurance contract.

You are also allowed to apply for emancipation, which may be partial (simple emancipation) or total (full emancipation).

From the age of 16, you are also allowed to get married, with the consent of your parents or your dative tutor. If you get married, you automatically become fully emancipated and legally able to exercise all your civil rights.