Emancipation Without Parental Consent

[Spitfire.93]

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of:Wyoming

I am 17 years old and I am living with my grandparents right now. I have had a lot of difficulty getting along with my Step-dad(who has adopted me) and my Biological mom. It has gotten to the point where my dad is not afraid to hit me, take me down in a choke hold(he is in the military), or anything physical. They have lied about what they do to me and I know for a fact that if I tried to get emancipated they would try to stop it. They have not provided me with an education either. I haven't made it passed the 8th grade. Is there a way to get around the parental consent? I am afraid to go back to live with them because they constantly threaten me with them calling the police, physical aggression, and Verbal aggression. They are afraid to let me be by myself because they know I will tell what they have done. My grandparents (which are my moms' parents) are afraid to send me back. Any help or advice on how to get around the parental consent will be greatly appreciated!

[free9man]

Not...gonna....happen. You need to report the abuse to the authorities and I would go a step further and file a complaint with SD's commanding officer. The military frowns on that sort of conduct. Of course, best case scenario you will wind up a ward of the state and get sent to live where they choose. How are they denying you an education? Are they forcibly preventing you from attending public school? If they are not home schooling you then they are required by law to enroll you into, and ensure you attend, public school.

[cbg]

Emancipation is not going to happen. There are things that can be done about both the abuse and the education issues, assuming that you are not exaggerating for effect, but emancipation is not among them.

[Spitfire.93]

They started Homeschooling me when I went into 5th grade. My mom was the one teaching me at that point. Then by the time I was in 7th grade she started to not teach me, she said she was to sick to teach me. Even when she said she felt better she refused to teach me. So I asked to be put back into a public school and she started to yell at me and tell me how ungrateful I was for wanting to go back into a public school, after her and my dad had bought everything for me to be home schooled. So I dropped the subject for awhile. I brought it back up when I realized I was falling so far behind other kids my age. The same thing happened that had happened before. They also told the police I was refusing to do school, i think because they did not want the blame to fall on them. So, I started teaching myself what i could. I made through 7th grade with barely a high enough grade level and into 8th. I then asked if I could be put back into a public school, and they said they would think about it. I am now to old to be put in the grade level I would be in at a public school. I would have to go to an alternative school. I was about to sign up for it when I was sent up here to Wyoming to live with my grandparents.

[Mr. Knowitall]

If your parents sent you to Wyoming and you want to be sure you don't go back any time soon, how about having your grandparents petition for guardianship?

[jkelly94]

the best thing to do is report the abuse. you will probably be put in foster care.
i have a similar situation except without the abuse and education neglect

[maryAllis]

I just turned 17 in May and I have a job interview set up tomorrow. It has become too much for me to live at home with my mother and her girlfriend. She claims that i am lazy and ungrateful but that is not the case. I live in a home with six other people and am the oldest of five children. I cook clean and mind the children when my mother does not. My father lives and Brooklyn and does not do anything to help us. I help my mother as much as I can but it has come to the point where I am tired of watching kids, cleaning up after them, sacrificing my time for them with no gratitude in return and I am tired of taking whatever my mother dishes out. My friend says she can find me an apartment with low rent but I know for a fact that my mother will try to stop me, not because she cares, but because she is afraid i will make her look bad. When I was eleven she threatened to put me in a group home because of my "attitude", I never left my house at that age. I just cant live with her and her girlfriend anymore. She lets her girlfriend step all over me and talk to me however she pleases. If I try to say something it turns into world war three. She never takes my side and forces me to pick up on her duties as a mother because she is the adult and I am the child and I am to do as she says. She also refuses to let me go out of state to college and I believe she will take any action she can to prevent me from leaving. I need to be on my own and I need to know before i contact ANYONE... if emancipation is even possible for me.

[cyjeff]

Ignoring the hijacking of the thread...

You have no chance. Going into court and saying your mom makes you do too many chores so you want to move out on your own and do ALL the chores doesn't make any sense....not to mention you didn't include your job, your income or any other factor important to the case.

[cbg]

Once again, I will point out that emancipation is not and never was intended to be a means for a minor to leave home, but a means for a minor who, through no fault of their own is already living on their own, to obtain the necessary legal protections.

[maryAllis]

I do not wish to leave because of the fact that I have chores. I want to leave because I am tired of being picked on by my own mother. Im tired of her threatening to send me to a group home and I am tired of the police thinking I am crazy because my mother kicks me out then reports me as a run away. I would like to think that the courts would rather see me working and supporting myself instead of being arrested or sent to a group home. Im searching for a job and setting interviews when ever I can. If I CAN and am willing to support myself I dont see the problem with it. I am not a 15 year old who is throwing a tantrum over a curfew. Im a 17 year old who is tired of being unwelcomed in her own home and just wants to be at peace.

If I were to get a job my monthly income would be just under 600$ a month for myself but there is another job that I learned about that would pay me a lot more. My friend knows a place where rent is 300 monthly leaving 300 monthly for myself. It may not be in the lap of luxury but it is better than having my mother put her hands on me and emotionally abuse me. I need to make my case work and I need help to do it