How to Emancipate When I Turn 16
My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: montana.
Im 15 and ill be 16 in march. when i turned 16 i would like to file for emancipation. I have heard in order to be emancipated i have to have a really good reason. Also i would have to have a home rather than with my parents.
I dont have a great relationship with my parents. They think we do but really they are always gone and dont know much about me. I call them a couple of drunks. See when i was little my dad was on the road and my mom worked nights so my 2 older brothers raised me so i mostly like calling them parents. My parents are home more now but i dont like when there home. When im home alone they are in the bars. Like 6 days a week they are at the bar. And when they are there i can never get ahold of them they dont answer there phone. Im scared one of these days ill be hurt and they wont answer. And when they do answer they dont listen they just say yeah ok and hang up on me or yeah we will be home in an hour but really they dont come home till like 4 hours later and by that time its 12 am. when they are gone i cry cuz it hurts me that i dont feel important. they are good parents and they give me what they can but just they dont know how there drinking effects me. it hurts my heart. they sometimes get violent when drunk and i have whittnesses to it. my neighbor knows everything that happens and has whitnessed alot of it. is all that a good enough reason for emancipation?
also when emancipated as long as im out of my parents house does it matter if i live on my own or with a friend or relative?
Re: How to Emancipate When I Turn 16
Unless you can prove to the satisfaction of the court that you can pay for 100% of your own rent (market rate, not a token amount paid to a friend or a friend's family), utilities, food, clothing, transportation, medical care, insurance, staples, school fees and supplies, and all the other incidentals of life, no reason is good enough.
(and no, this would not be a good enough reason to be emancipated.)
Re: How to Emancipate When I Turn 16
But im in an abusive family
Re: How to Emancipate When I Turn 16
If you are being physically abused, contact CPS, your school counselor, doctor, pastor or other trusted adult.
That STILL doe not qualify you for emancipation. If proven, it would "qualify you" for removal from the home into a foster family or with an approved relative.
Re: How to Emancipate When I Turn 16
Being in an abusive family has NEVER been a reason for emancipation. To call CPS, yes. To potentially be removed from the home and put into foster care, yes, possibly. To be placed in the custody of other relatives, yes, possibly.
But to emancipate? No.