I Am 16 and I Want to Get Emancipated

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I need help...
I want to get emancipated from my mother, who has failed to raise me. i live with my grandparents....( they do not have custody over me my mom does) Who have basically been there for me since day 3. I am a middle child on my mom side, but the 2nd oldest on my fathers. my siblings are 20, 13, 11, 7, and 9months.
My mother drinks, and is married to a man who i wouldnt even consider a man. He use to abuse us, threaten me.... told my mother he was going to kill her etc. But my mother refuses to leave this man....I have been beat, abused and threaten my whole life. I have been called so many names from my step father and mother. I have been told everything was my fault, and at one point i belived it... I have been dumped and put to the side for my oldest brother and younger sister. The Football star and the smart one. I am a good student and i play sports....
I can hold a job, and go to school, if there were places hiring in my area.

My father wasnt really there for me untill i was 12, he has been in and out of my life beacuse of my mother....He is a really good man, but my mom tells me lies about him, and trys to scare me into stop seeing him. My dad is re-married to a wonderful wife. and thanks to her i have a mother who wasnt really there. and 3 amazing little brothers.... but i can't live with them.. that would be to much. Way to much. :(

I lived with my grandparents for the longest, they have giving me the world, but i am not their problem, i am my mother and father's.
I have a boyfriend who works and goes to school, the only problem is is that he lives in california.( he comes to see me every weekend ) we have been together for a year. And he wants me to get away from these people, beacuse i tell him i cant take the fights and the agurements. He hates to see me cry and tell him i want to runaway.

Would i have a chance at winning this case? or would i have to stay with my grandparents.

I really am about to go crazy!:wallbang:

State? Did you read the stickies? Emancipation isn't going to happen unless you are TOTALLY self supporting among other things.

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And he wants me to get away from these people, beacuse i tell him i cant take the fights and the agurements. He hates to see me cry and tell him i want to runaway.

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This is not reason for emancipation. You don't qualify in any state, anyway, as you have no full time job, no proven record of supporting yourself 100%, and no real need.

It's great that you don't want to be a burden on your grandparents, but the way to do that is to do your best in school, and do everything you can around the house. They're taking care of you because they want you to be safe.

My own grandparents raised me after their drug-addled son beat me comatose. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here today - they could have left me to fend for myself, but they didn't. And your grandparents aren't, either.

Repaying their kindness with "My boyfriend wants me out!" is...ridiculous.

Missy, my grandparents raised me as well. Damned lucky they did, too. I had a step-brother who was born when I was 10, and when they would visit, he would be nearly catatonic for the first few hours, and he also was beaten by my mother.

We turned out pretty good, didn't we? :)

Thank the All-Father for grandparents, babe.

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I live in Ga and i been reading up on up on it, i beleive i do and can win this case. i would rather be out and about than making my grandparents pay for what my mother cant do. Thanks for your help. "My boyfriend wants me out!"- is the most stupidest thing (sorry if you think its that way but it is not.), i would never use that as a way to get out! my grandparents taught me better. but i shouldnt have to sit here and watch my grandparents defend for me when that is clearly my mother and step-fathers job( which they failed to do). Thanks again.

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Quoting Pam_08

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I live in Ga and i been reading up on up on it, i beleive i do and can win this case. i would rather be out and about than making my grandparents pay for what my mother cant do. Thanks for your help. "My boyfriend wants me out!"- is the most stupidest thing (sorry if you think its that way but it is not.), i would never use that as a way to get out! my grandparents taught me better. but i shouldnt have to sit here and watch my grandparents defend for me when that is clearly my mother and step-fathers job( which they failed to do). Thanks again.

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Please explain how you will convince a court to emancipate you.

Make sure that what you've been reading is up to date. GA has recently upgraded its requirements for emancipation to the point that it is now virtually impossible.

You see, a few years ago, out of several thousand applications, twelve minors were emancipated. Twelve. Ten fingers and two toes. A football starting lineup with one coach.

The GA state legislation thought that was too many. So they went about closing all the loopholes that allowed for emancipation. If the same twelve teens applied for emancipation this year, every one of them would be denied.

So, tell us again how you qualify?

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i beleive i do and can win this case.

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ORLY?

So, how many hours a week do you work? How much do you make an hour? How much do you spend each month on rent? Car insurance? Medical insurance?

Food? Clothing? Toiletries? Gas for the car? Contraceptives? No, we don't believe you don't need them, not when you're in here talking about what your boyfriend wants.

How much money do you have in your savings account, in case you run into an emergency?

How are your grades in school? How do you intend to maintain better than average grades and still work enough hours to sustain yourself, 100%?

See, it's not about your BS about not wanting to burden your grandparents. (CLUE: If that were actually your concern, you wouldn't have been talking about how your boyfriend thinks your environment is harmful for you.) The court does not care.

Emancipation is about NEED. You don't NEED to be emancipated, and you don't have the means to show the court that you are not only supporting yourself 100%, but that you'd be able to CONTINUE to do so over the long term, WITHOUT assistance.

Your bravado is kind of cute, but it's irrelevant. You're not a candidate for emancipation.