Can a parent withhold your possessions?

My boyfriend's parents are threatening to keep his stuff if he tries to move out. He has the receipts to most, if not all, of his stuff.





Can they hold it?Can a parent withhold your possessions?
Not once he is 18. Under 18 they do have a right to control his possessions but they remain in fact his property. They can use them to his betterment (sell them to pay for his college, or bills he incurred and can't pay, for example, but not his food or other basic necessities since that's their obligation) but when he is 18 they have to give him everything he earned or was given and can be held accountable in court if they ';wasted'; or ';converted'; (took for their own use), or refuse to give back to him, any property that is his.Can a parent withhold your possessions?
If they are in fact his items, he should have full property ownership of them, and not his parents.
Of course, they can. Does he have receipts showing that he earned the money to pay for the items? Paycheck stubs, etc?