Question

Kyle is a seventeen-years-old minor who has just graduated from high school. He is attending a university two hundred miles from home and has contracted to rent an apartment near the university for one year at $500 per month. He is working at a convenience store to earn enough income to be self-supporting. After living in the apartment and paying monthly rent for four months, he becomes involved in a dispute with is landlord. Kyle, still a minor, moves out and returns the key to the landlord. The landlord wants to hold Kyle liable for the balance of the payments due under the lease. Discuss fully Kyle’s liability in this situation.

Answer 1

Answer:

kyle does not owe the landlord any liability since the contract is void.

Explanation:

To answer this question i would first explain what disaffirmance means. the term means that to express oneself in a way which shows that they are no longer liable to certain bindings to a contract. A minor is someone who is considered to be younger than 18 years of age. Minors do not have certain rights and obligations and these includes certain civil and political obligations. As a minor kylie has no legal rights to enter a contract with the landlord. The law is protective of people of his age from certain ntypes of responsibilities due to their young age which makes them incapable of handling such. Apart from sports a minor cannot enter into a contract. also we have in this scenario that kyle returned the keys to the landlord and by this action he has shown that he is not bound by any contract with the landlord. since he paid his rent for the period of 4 months, the contract was disaffirmed when he took the keys back to the landlord.