Emancipating at Age Fourteen

[BizarrelyStellar]

okay, I need help figuring out somethings.
I am 14 years old (I will be 15, October 5th) I have a job at a coffee shop where I get minimum wage plus tips. I work about 25 hours a week, so I make about 800$ a month. I basically don't live at my parents house... Now that I got a job my "mother" is telling me I have to give 75% of my pay check for rent! and I dont really even live there! I basically have a surrogate family that I love to death, that I basically live with!! I am very advanced in school, I will probably graduate high school at the end of this school year, which will be the end of my Sophomore year, and then I am going to start college at Cal Poly, Where I am going to get my teaching credentials in math. So basically I have got everything all planned out. The only thing is, my "mother" is pretty unstable, and one minute she tells me to get out of her house, and the next she is telling me that if I dont come back she is going to report me as a runaway! I will be 15 when I graduate high school and go on to college so I cant have her treatening to call the cops on me! so do you guys think that I would have a good chance of getting emancipaited?
-I am over 14
-I have means to support myself
and
-I have somewhere to live where I will be paying rent.

So HELP please! I dont know what I should do!

[panther10758]

$800.00 a month is enough for self support? Emancipation is about self (keyword) support. How do you plan to support yourself on $800.00?

Crude example:

Rent $400.00 (studio Apartment) If a Landlord will rent to a 14 year old
Grocery $300.00 if you eat really cheap
Phone $25.00
Cell (if you have one) $50.00
Gas $15.00
Electric $20.00
transportation (Bus) $50.00 (maybe more)
Medical insurance $100.00 conservative estimate
Cable Tv (basic) $40.00
Internet $20.00 dial up

This takes you well past to your "alledged" $800.00 income without clothing, entertainment or anything I forgot.

[cbg]

The chances of a 14 year old, who is not either a successful child actor or a nationally known sports figure, being emancipated, is so slim as to be almost non-existant.

Emancipation is far more rare than most kids realize

I'll give you some statistics.

In the state of Georgia, (where a 14 year old cannot be emancipated under any circumstances) in the year 2005 (the last year for which figures are available) there were many thousands of applications for emancipation. Estimate 10,000 at a conservative estimate.

12 were granted. Not 12 hundred. 12. Ten fingers and two toes.

The state of Georgia decided that 12 was too many, and tightened up the requirements to make it MORE difficult for a teen to be emancipated.

I realize that you are not in GA. But the courts from state to state are all pretty much of the same mind when it comes to emancipating teens. They are very reluctant to do so.