Getting Emancipated in Utah

I live in Utah and I wish to get emancipated... I am fifteen right now but I am not going to start the emancipation process until some time next year... I live in a household where there is constant screaming, it has been quiet lately but it is starting to get worse.


My mom is always verbally abusing me, mentally abusing me, and psychologically abusing me... I was suicidal when I was 11 while my parents were getting divorced, around that time my mom tried to physically abuse me for saying I wanted to live with my dad... I have been physically abused by both of my brothers, my brother tried to choke me to death when I was 10... I have learned never to speak my mind for fear of being abused... I have stopped being suicidal for the past two or three years but now that my parents decided to get back together, those suicidal thoughts have come back because everything is falling to pieces.


My parents want to move to Florida, and ever since they have announced it, I start wanting to kill myself... I am not normally this way, I am a person who loves life... I get almost straight "A"'s, I plan on staying with my friend while I am getting Emancipated. I do not have a job now but I will be lifeguarding next year while looking for a fulltime job.


I was wondering if I could be emancipated a week before I turn 16 because that is when my parents plan on moving... I am currently looking for an apartment to rent also. I was also wondering how long it can take to get emancipated?

From what I have written, does it look like I have even a slim chance of getting emancipated right before I turn 16?:confused:

Not even remotely.

Nothing you have posted suggests that you are a candidate for emancipation and several things you have posted suggest that emancipation is not an option for you. Now, next year, or at any time before you turn 18 and are emancipated automatically.

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From what I have written, does it look like I have even a slim chance of getting emancipated right before I turn 16?

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Absolutely not.

You can't even file a petition for emancipation until you turn 16.

Suicidal tendencies and no proven track record of supporting yourself 100% - and that includes renting your own apartment at market rate, not staying with someone - further hinders you.

Even if you were completely self supporting, the second you tell a judge "The idea of moving to Florida makes me suicidal", the answer will an unequivocal NO.

"Even if you were completely self supporting, the second you tell a judge "The idea of moving to Florida makes me suicidal", the answer will an unequivocal NO. "

Just so you know I am not suicidal at the thought of moving to florida, it is that I will be in a state I am uncomfortable with and I will have none of my close friends there when I get into a serious fight with my parents.... which is almost daily... I need to be able to leave my house and go to a friend I really trust and leave my stress at home... leaving my friends will cause that stress to build up too much.... every now and then I will be ok with moving to florida but then my parents will start twisting those thoughts into something that will cause those suicidal tendencies... it is my parents that cause this... nothing else in my life... I am emotionally stable except when I am around them... my dad is going to force me into the army when I turn 17 and my parents don't even trust me, even when I have done nothing to lose their trust... I am not allowed to hang out with boys because they think I am off having sex when I am not... I have vowed never to make that mistake... there is no love in this family... no emotional support, my parents make fun of me when I talk about my dream job, which it isn't impossible, I just need to work towards it.

I can't rent a place until I turn sixteen and that will be too late.... seeing as how I don't believe they allow kids to get emancipated in florida... I have a job lined up for next year, but I have to be sixteen.... I plan on going to beauty school when I turn sixteen and if we move to florida, I will not be able to even attempt to try to fully support myself... I have a place I want to rent that is only two streets up where I am now but I haven't gotten a job yet, I have to wait until January to apply.

I thank you for your advice but it does not help when I have to wait until it is too late to do all these things.

You will not be emancipated based upon what you've written.

Sorry.

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I thank you for your advice but it does not help when I have to wait until it is too late to do all these things.

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Sorry. Your wants and timetable do not influence the law.

Enjoy Florida. Gotta be something to it... half the country vacations there every year.

Thank you for trying to help me, but I left out a lot which I am not willing to go into, there are a lot of things that have contributed to me wanting to get emancipated.... There are things going on in my house that would shock you... If you knew the whole reason behind me wanting to get emancipated then you would understand.... thanks anyway.

And do you think that if we understood the reason you want to be emancipated, it would magically make the law say something different?

It is not because "we don't understand" that we're telling you that you will not be emancipated. It's because THE LAW says that you won't be emancipated. Your reasons will not change the answer, because emancipation is not granted on your reasons; it is granted on a proven basis of self-support that you simply do not have. All the reasons in the world are not going to make you eligible if you are not.

Let me put it to you this way.

There is not a judge in the country that will emancipate you because your parents want you to move and you don't want to go. Less than 1% of all candidates are emancipated... and that number hasn't changed in a decade.

Judges fully appreciate that an emancipated child will, most likely, drop out of school and become a burden to the state. What, you say, this is all about MONEY and not my happiness?

Exactly. The state is not responsible for keeping you happy.

Therefore, if you have parents, a roof over your head, food in your belly and clothes on your back, the judge will say that you don't NEED to be emancipated. That's right... not WANT, but NEED is the most important factor.

You have to prove that you can support yourself.... that you can already conduct yourself as an adult. You have done neither and don't have any job or life history to prove otherwise.

Oh, that's right... the judge doesn't care about "going to's". They care about "done's". All you have done is threaten suicide every time someone hurts your feelings. The first time in court your parents say that you threaten suicide and/or run off to a friend's house when there is a disagreement, the case will be closed.

Because the judge will rightly assume you need MORE supervision, not less.

ok stop attacking me, you really don't understand... because you keep repeating yourself and it is pissing me off, I do not threaten suicide when I get my feelings hurt and I do not run to a friends house... I ask if I can go over to a friends and my parents understand I need to get away because they know they stress me out beyond belief.

As I have said over and over but you don't seem to understand and it is pissing me off, THANK YOU for your comments but you are attacking me now and that is not what this site is about, it is about getting questions answered.... I have seen some of your guys' usernames on other questions and you attack them too, because of little things... you are not lawers, so don't act like you are!!

I am well educated, I have good friends, everything is perfect in my life... good neighborhood, good people, everything is good and now that's all being taken away from me, so you can understand why I am upset... and if I see one more comment after this, attacking me, I will seriously swear at them because I have had to deal with this all my life and I am sick of it... and don't say I am a whiny little brat who doesn't appreciate what they have in life because I do and now I am losing it.

I am a kid who has had a rough life, and when things finally get better, they get it taken away... so yes I am upset so LEAVE ME ALONE! I came for help and now you go and practically say I am a Whiny little suicidal brat just like you do to everyone else who posts this type of question because you are apparently idiots because you do not understand what thank you for your answers means.... it means STOP COMMENTING I HAVE HAD ENOUGH BULLYING!!! Bullying=suicide... take a look at the news... that is the new thing, people don't kill other people, they cause others to kill themselves... And I am not Threatening suicide, I just take bullying as a serious offense because I have dealt with suicide a lot lately... seeing as how I helped my friend through suicide and my uncle killed himself...

No more comments or I will really start getting rude!:mad::mad::mad::mad: