Can You Get Emancipated if Your Home is Unstable

[simply tired]

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: maryland

Hi, I am 16 years of age going on 17. I am currently writing this because my current living situations are mentally draining me to the point where I dont know how long I will be able to continue dealing with the same thing for much longer. Am not writing because I get angry at my mother or because she doesn't buy me anything but because everysince I was little my mother anxiety and her seek for attention has put me through very emotional chaos because seeing someone with it , young make you confused and scared I just found out recently she was faking them , the fact that I am had a very unstable life I went to about 4 elementary schools and 2 middle and high schools my mother latest marriage bout a lot of pain to me because he used to put his hands on her , at this time my mother was so scared for her life and the life of her children she used to take me to motels in the middle of the it scared he was going to kill us I always carry that with me because it's a scary thing but after me and my cousin spent a whole 2 months out of school I almost failed eighth grade bringing my grades back up striving to graduate ... We eventually moved into a house with just me , my mother and my cousin Where me and my cousin ended up having to steal food because my mother wated to party ,we lived happily until my mother went behind my and everybody else back and got married while in my grandfather house my mother husband then moved in with us me , my cousin and mom again which made the fighting between her and her husband continue resulting in me running away I never wanted to run away because I know how my mother anxiety would play a part on her so I put up with the foolishness my cousin being my best friend now moved out and went into a foster home leaving me there by myself for a short time while my mother allowed her other two kids my brother and sister with my sister two kids and her baby father eventually my mother house got raided she lost her housing through section eight and I have been moving back and fourth through my mother and father whom just came back in my life due to drugs and is not ready to be a father . Recently me and my mother got into a altercation ending in her beating with a broomstick and everywhere I have went to they told me I can't get into foster care because I had two parents who loved me .i am miserable, i have put up with a lot of things that I hold on to and put up with I am now ready to move on with this chapter in my life. I have a job at a institute for the Summer and is filling out applications for when I get out of this internship I will be in the twelfth grade and should have a part time job and recieving help from my school and therapist as soon as I get squeezed into the schedule because I have put up with so much stuff with my parent and I am tired emotionally drained I have people who will verify that I am mature and will be able to prove it I just wanna be able to legally leave so my mother can know I'm okay but we can also work on our relationship because all the things she put me through made me hate her . Please tell me I have a shot

[aardvarc]

Nothing you've mentioned has any bearing on the possibility of emancipation. It's not a way out of an unpleasant living situation, it's a way for a minor who through no fault of their own is ALREADY 100% supporting themselves, to have additional legal abilities to take care of themselves. No matter what's going on at home, emancipation rests on you proving to a court that you have a documented history of being able to financially support yourself, pay your own rent, utilities, health insurance, transportation, medical expenses, food, clothing....while STILL making above average grades in school. What job are you CURRENTLY working that earns you enough to pay those expenses, and what are your grades like? If you think you're emotionally drained now, just wait till you get into the world where you've got to figure out how to pay the landlord, get the car fixed, take care of an aching wisdom tooth, fight with your boss over a schedule that doesn't leave you 3 hours to yourself, etc. Life doesn't get easier just by leaving home. Please read some of the THOUSANDS of similar posts here, and the responses.

[simply tired]

I have read the thousands of post , I have a job and I'm getting another job in which they just called me back all the while I am as excellent student and should defenantly be Able to support may self with this job

[cbg]

So this job will pay enough to allow you to pay 100% of the market rate for rent, all your utilities (heat, electricity, phone, etc.), clothing, food, transportation, medical care, insurance, school fees and supplies, staples, other incidentals? Have you costed it out? Can you show a judge a budget that will show what all these things cost you (not, estimates on what you think they might cost, but actual amounts that can be documented), against your net income? Because you'll have to do that. Are you going to be able to show him that you'll be able to earn that much money while still going to school and maintaining those grades, working only those hours when school is not in session, and still leaving enough time for homework?

And all of the above presumes that your mother will allow you to leave home now, because if she won't, emancipation is not going to happen, period. Emancipation is not and never was a means to allow minors to leave home, particularly if their parents don't want them to. It was and is a means to allow legal protections to those minors who are ALREADY living on their own.

In other words, no reason is good enough to be emancipated unless on the day you go before the judge, you are able to show him evidence that you are ALREADY living on your own and supporting yourself. Not, that you can do so in future if you're allowed to move out, but that you are ALREADY doing so.