Trying to Get Emancipation

i am a 17 year old i lived with my mom most of my life. Me and her would fight all the time so she kicked me out. so now i am living with my dad and my new step mom,I have been living with them for a year. They don't want me living there but they will not let me go.All we do is fight and she calls me a low life s***. They let me stay with my boyfriend over the summer. I took care of my self and They let me go over on the weekend. They told me i have to start taking care of myself but they will not let me go i don't want to go to a foster home but there house is not clean they have cockroach bad and i don't know who can help me they will not sign and i told the school they wont help me i don't have a job i looking for one help me i don't know what to do.I need to get emancipation i cant go anywhere who can help me without my parent knowing anything yet

Emancipation possibilities and procedures vary by state, and you haven't told us yours.

However, in ALL states where emancipation is possible, you must be able to show the court that you and you alone have the ability and a proven history of being able to support yourself 100% (rent, utilities, health insurance, food, clothing, transportation, ettc.) while at the same time making above average grades in school. With no job, you have no chance of emancipation. Even WITH a job, you'd need to be making enough to pay for your OWN place, and have a history of several months of earning a wage high enough to cover all of those expenses. No job means no emancipation.

Emancipation is NOT just about getting out from under parental control. It's based on documented history of self care and granted only in extreme cases where there is a NEED for emancipation. Verbal abuse isn't even a factor. If your parents have you living in neglectful or unsanitary conditions, then you need to contact Child Protective Services. If they determine that your living conditions are unhealthy, they'll remove you from the home and THEY will decide where you'll live.

When you saw the sticky at the top of the forum you posted in, why didn't you read them?

Whey you saw the question "what is your state" why didn't you answer?

Quickly, without a job you don't have a kleenex's chance in a blast furnace. Not gonna have... not should have... not because of.... you need to be able to prove you can support yourself in all 50 states.

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Quoting cyjeff

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in all 50 states.

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That's not necessarily true. Some states don't allow for emancipation at all...:p

The court doesn't emancipate you so you can go shack up with your boyfriend. However, since the age of majority in PA is 18, you can go do what you want after you turn 18, but please educate yourself and don't make any babies. None at all.

no not going to a foster home

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Quoting babybella

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no not going to a foster home

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Then a judge would say that you really weren't abused but, instead, was a kid willing to say or do anything to or about anyone to allow yourself to live with a boy you are not allowed to live with.

Again, without a job, this isn't even an intellectual exercise... this discussion is just a waste of time.

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Quoting babybella

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no not going to a foster home

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Then you're not being abused, and as a survivor of ACTUAL abuse, I would appreciate it if you shut your whiny little mouth about how abused you are. People who are being abused will take ANY WAY OUT they're offered. Cram it, princess. You're just mad that Mommy and Daddy have rules.

This is all moot. The state of Pennsylvania does not have any statutory provisions for the emancipation of minors. In some counties, you can get a judge to declare you emancipated if your circumstances are considered extraordinary enough to merit it, but the fact of the matter is that a whiny, half-literate, jobless child who's pissed because her parents have rules is not in any sort of extraordinary circumstances at all.

Emancipation is not an option. Suck it up til you're 18, then leave. That's your option.

:) I heart Missy.

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Quoting LawResearcherMissy

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Then you're not being abused, and as a survivor of ACTUAL abuse, I would appreciate it if you shut your whiny little mouth about how abused you are. People who are being abused will take ANY WAY OUT they're offered. Cram it, princess. You're just mad that Mommy and Daddy have rules.

This is all moot. The state of Pennsylvania does not have any statutory provisions for the emancipation of minors. In some counties, you can get a judge to declare you emancipated if your circumstances are considered extraordinary enough to merit it, but the fact of the matter is that a whiny, half-literate, jobless child who's pissed because her parents have rules is not in any sort of extraordinary circumstances at all.

Emancipation is not an option. Suck it up til you're 18, then leave. That's your option.

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I don't know what crossed your wires... but I think I am in love.

Missy always did have a wonderful way with words.

Speaking just as a general observation, I cannot help but see the irony of a teen who is demanding to be seen as and granted the rights of an adult - but self-identifies as "baby" anything.