Emancipation Help For Tennessee

[blackfirefreak]

Okay, I’m 18 years old and my boyfriend is 17 and lives in Bristol, TN. I’m trying to help my boyfriend J.B. and his sister, Courtney (who is 16), to be emancipated. Their mother mentally abuses them while their father is a drug addict and I believe an alcoholic too. Recently, he yelled at Courtney because he found out that she was fooling around with her boyfriend. He threatened that if she was pregnant that he will force her to have an abortion, throw her boyfriend in jail and literally kill her (completely serious and I wouldn’t doubt that he’d hesitate). He has also abused my boyfriend all throughout his life but it’s not as frequent as before so he has no broken bones, cuts, or bruises… yet. J.B. and his sister both don’t have jobs because they have no transportation and their parents won’t help them out. J.B. and I plan to marry and have a future together but his parents despise me and threatened to call the cops on me. They even tried to get me for statutory rape but it was dismissed. Can my family at least take J.B. in and maybe Courtney’s boyfriend can take her in if we can prove to support them? My brother and sister-in-law are my guardians (well, were before I turned 18) we live on a military base and my bro is 25, in E6 (which is really good) so that means he can very well take care of J.B. like he has with me. What can I do? He turns 18 in 10 months but I honestly don’t think he can wait that long, especially since his dad is so violent when it comes to J.B. and I dating.


Also, they have a younger sister named Kenzie, they haven’t been bad to her… yet. Is there any way to save her too?

When I was 16 I tried to get emancipated, I had a job, a car and bruises/whelps from my mother’s beatings. Yet, they didn’t help me, so how can they help my boyfriend and his sisters if they didn’t help me? Is hope lost? I was lucky that my mother signed me away over to my brother, but I know for a fact that J.B.’s parents won’t sign him over.

[panther10758]

the issues in your BF home are for CPS not emancipation