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# How do I change someone's role, remove them or leave a family?

> Change a family member's role, transfer ownership, remove someone or leave a family yourself, all from the Family page.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * **Start from the person.** Open the Family page and choose a person to change their role, remove them, or leave the family yourself.
  * **Owner-only actions.** Only the family owner can change roles, remove a co-manager or transfer ownership. The owner must transfer ownership before leaving a family that has other members.
  * **Removal is immediate and family-wide.** Removing someone ends their access through this family right away, for every athlete in it. Access through another family or Shared access stays.
  * **Athletes need a family.** An athlete can't be removed from their last family.
</Note>

**Where to find it.** In the family portal, open **Family** (on phones, under **More**). In several families? Pick one above the tree. Choose a person in **Your family tree** or the **People** view. Their panel shows "\[role] in \[family name]", **Access through this family** and **Relationships**.

**Who can do what.**

| Role | What they can do in this family |
| - | - |
| Family owner | Everything a co-manager can, plus change roles, remove co-managers, transfer ownership |
| Co-manager | Invite people, remove guardians and athletes, rename the family, manage Shared access |
| Guardian | Access every family athlete and add athletes |
| Athlete | Manage only themselves |

<Steps>
  <Step title="Change a role (family owner only)">
    Open a guardian's or co-manager's panel. Under **Family membership**, choose **Make co-manager** (for a guardian) or **Change to guardian** (for a co-manager), then **Confirm change** in **Change this person's role?**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Transfer ownership (family owner only)">
    On a guardian's or co-manager's panel, choose **Transfer ownership**, then **Confirm change** in **Transfer family ownership?**. They become the owner; you become a **Co-manager**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Remove someone, or leave">
    On their panel, choose **Remove from family**, or **Leave this family** on your own panel. The confirmation warns: "This family access ends immediately. Access through other families or individual permissions stays in place. Purchases and payment responsibilities remain with their owners." Choose **Confirm change**, or **Keep as is**. Removing an athlete also pauses any Shared access to that athlete given through this family: the **Shared access** card shows "Access paused until this athlete rejoins the family."
  </Step>
</Steps>

**The limits.** While others remain, the owner's panel has no **Leave this family** button: transfer ownership first. Removing an athlete from their last family shows "Add this athlete to another family before removing them from their last family." An adult who is also registered as an athlete can still leave their only family. A removed adult with no other family gets a new one of their own.

**Bring someone back.** There's no undo: an owner or co-manager uses **Invite family member** to send a new invitation, which the person must accept.

**Rename your family.** Owners and co-managers use the three-dot menu at the top: **Rename family**, then **Save changes**.

**Older households.** If you joined Uplifter before families existed, your access to an athlete may still come from your old guardian link, shown on the athlete's page as **Preserved athlete access** with **Open Family**. The person who was the athlete's main contact also sees **Remove access**, which ends only that old link. **Review existing access** on the Family page shows what changes, then switches your old guardian links to family access once you tick the confirmation and choose **Confirm family access**. Each other person reviews their own; your current access stays until then.

**Related:** [What is a family, and who can see my athletes?](/families/families-household/what-is-a-family) · [How do I invite someone to my family?](/families/families-household/invite-someone-to-your-family) · [How do I give someone limited access to one of my athletes?](/families/families-household/share-access-to-an-athlete) · [Why don't my co-guardian and I get the same emails about our athlete?](/families/families-following/why-dont-we-both-get-the-same-emails-about-our-athlete)