I Dont Know How Or If I Can Become Emancipated

[jsamsam616@aol.com]

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: virginia



I am 15 going on 16 in July.

My parents are divorced and I'm from Virginia, but my dad has custody of me and he made me move to TX with him. So currently I am visiting my mother in VA for the summer. I cant get a job because I'm forced to constantly move back and forth.

Heres my problem ever sense my mom and dad got divorced 8 years ago there has been a lot of issues. My mom has been through money problems, and theres many other things me and my brother had to deal with and get through. But they made it even harder on me and my brother when my dad married my step mother.
[1] She does not like us
[2] She is the reason my dad forced us to move to TX and caused more problems between my dad and mom.

My younger brother has ran away from them 2 times, every thing started happening putting me through depression. Its like I have been getting punished for them getting divorced.

I don't want to deal with all the problems my family has with each other any more. I just want to go back to the school i was going to, and graduate with all friends i been with sense elementary school.

- I am able to get a job .
-I already know where i would stay .
-My grandmother on my moms side has already paid for a in state collage for me.




Here are my questions about becoming emancipated

1. I know I will need a lawyer , so how do i get one?

2. In the process if getting emancipated I'm guessing it would take a few months or so, will i have to go back to TX in August with my dad, or stay in VA?

3. What is the percentage of kids who actually are granted emancipation?

4. What kind of reasons does the court look for when they grant people my age emancipation.

5. Am I of age do be doing this or do i need to be older.

6. Where do i start?
How and who do i contact to get emancipated?

7. What kind of things do i need to know to be prepared for going to court?

If there is any more information i need to know about getting emancipated please tell me. this web site is very help full thank you so much!

[cyjeff]

1. look in the phonebook.

2. Go where your parent tell you to go. Emancipation is far from a sure thing when you meet all the criteria...and you don't. You really don't have a chance at emancipation.

3. Less than 1%. Without a job (and a "gonna get" isn't going to do it), a place to live (where you are ALREADY living ON YOUR OWN) and a really good reason to NEED (as opposed to WANT) the rights of an adult (and "my stepmother doesn't like me and made me move" doesn't APPROACH the benchmark), you don't have a snowballs chance in a blast furnace.

4. That you need the rights of an adult - the right to enter a contract and to provide and authorize your own medical care - because you have no one else to provide that authority.

You do.

5. 16 is the usual starting point.

6. I didn't even bother looking up the statute. When you have been working at an above minimum wage job for a year with an excellent education history and a better reason than "I want to graduate with the people I have known 'sense' grade school", let me know and I will look it up.

7. Don't worry about court. Worry about getting and keeping a job and a place to live.

[Mind_Freak]

I agree with cyjeff its really hard to get emancipated at least 3 to 6 months if not more and if you don't have a source of income like a job or a place to live "not your mom or dad's place" then you have no chance to win. I would try changing legal guardianship. How is your relationship with your dad?

[aaron]

We provide two threads in this forum - "Can I Get Emancipated?", and emancipation laws for each state - which answer most emancipation questions. You are reminded to read them before you post. This might be a good time to get around to it.