No, I am just absolutely sure you have no idea how much money it takes to raise a child.Quote:
Quoting Sessy_1112
Okay... let's break this down.
How much do you spend on....
Housing?
Utilities?
Car and Insurance?
Food?
Medical Insurance for you and the baby?
Telephone... cell or landline?
Clothing for you and the baby?
Entertainment?
Education expenses up to and including day care while you are in school?
Basically, you are talking about $3,000 a month... and that is only if your job offers you insurance. If it doesn't, up that number by $500 or so.
Considering you are a minor and can only work approx 20 hours a week, that means that you need to make approx $38 bucks an hour. Let's make that $50 because you will have to put half aside to live on when the baby comes and you can't work.
Are you currently making $38-50 an hour?
Now, you will answer that you will just go on the state rolls for some of those things. No judge will emancipate you if any part of your business plan includes the words "public assistance". You see, the judge will not want to emancipate you just so that you can become a burden on society.
How are you parents on drugs all the time and you want to pursue your father for child support? How does that work?
Can I Get Emancipated If I Get Pregnant
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03-30-2011, 04:35 PMcyjeffRe: Emancipation of a Minor
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03-30-2011, 04:38 PMSessy_1112Re: Emancipation of a Minor
Please. Tell me. What is wrong with wrong at either of those two places?
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03-30-2011, 04:41 PMcyjeffRe: Emancipation of a MinorI will translate that to "what is wrong with working at either of those two places?"Quote:
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Not a thing.
It just will take more than a couple of minimum wage jobs to raise a child and yourself to a court's satisfaction. -
03-30-2011, 04:43 PMSessy_1112Re: Emancipation of a Minor
One is minimum wage yes. The other I get paid $8.50 and due for a $.50 raise soon.
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03-30-2011, 04:46 PMcyjeffRe: Emancipation of a MinorEven if you work 40 hours a week at both (an impossibility for a pregnant woman and/or a woman with a child while going to school full time), you don't make enough for a court to declare you fit to emancipate.Quote:
Quoting Sessy_1112
For my youngest, I was paying $600 a month for day care alone. I just wiped out your take home pay and we haven't even put a roof over your head or food in your belly. And we are assuming that you want to spend NO time with your child as you work 80 hours a week.
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03-30-2011, 05:19 PMcbgRe: Emancipation of a Minor
Sessy, I have not completed reading this thread, but I'm going to jump in here. Whether you like it or not, the answer is no. If you get pregnant you cannot get emancipated.
There are two reasons for this.
1.) In your state, an emancipated minor can do exactly one thing that a non-emancipated minor cannot do - sign a contract. Emancipation, in your state, does NOT give you the right to move out of your parents' home.
2.) EVEN IF I take you at your word that you can, all alone with no help from your boyfriend (which is what it would take) support both yourself and a prospective baby, getting pregnant at 17 tells a judge that you need more supervision, not less. There is simply no chance that a judge is going to emancipate a pregnant teenager, no matter how well she claims she can support herself. And if the judge did emancipate you (which he won't) it wouldn't do you any good since, in your state, you would still have to live with your parents unless they gave you permission to move out.
So you can stop with the pouting and the insulting the volunteers who are trying to explain the law to you. They have done so; it's simply that the answer is not the one you want to hear.