No. In your situation you do not have a prayer of being emancipated. I'm not being a smartass - I'm giving it to you straight based on the law. Emancipation is NOT granted in the circumstances you are in, and emancipation does NOT mean living with someone else and splitting expenses.
All the complaining about how bad your situation is and how much better off you would be on your own is not going to change the fact that under the law, you do not meet the requirements for emancipation.
Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
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05-30-2011, 06:55 PMcbgRe: Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
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05-30-2011, 07:50 PMaaronRe: Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
Read the threads stickied at the top of the forum or the link cdwjava shared. In Connecticut, among other factors, to qualify for emancipation a minor must be living apart from his parents and managing his own financial affairs.
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05-30-2011, 07:55 PMLawResearcherMissyRe: Am I Eligible to Become EmancipatedAnd you think THAT will qualify you for emancipation?Quote:
Quoting mpchatary
Kid, I'd snatch you baldheaded for taking that attitude with ANYONE, let alone an adult you have asked to give freely of their time to help your snotty ass.
Like it or not, you don't have a legal leg to stand on to petition for emancipation. -
05-31-2011, 04:30 AMflyingronRe: Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
By the way abuse (and the above doesn't even begin to comprise abuse) isn't a reason for emancipation either. Some other custodial placement is that answer for that.
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06-04-2011, 05:34 PMStrongxSoulRe: Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
Could you help me out here? I do have a good home and everything else. I live only with my mother, and she treats me like shit. Excuse my language, but I can't stand it anymore. I am 15. I turn 16 on december 30th. I don't know why, I don't know when, but she started being like this... and it's always been on me. She yells at me CONSTANTLY. She calls herself a good parent when all she does it come home, sit on her butt all day on the computer, on (adult sex finder) and it's so nasty, because she brings these guys over to the house, and she THINKS im alseep and i hear all these nasty things. it scares me honestly because what if the guy is dangerous!? Am I wrong?She always puts me down, and i'm tired of it, i cry all the time because she makes me feel like i'm nothing in this world. like i'm a piece of shit that wasnt met to happen. but let me tell you, i am 10 times smarter than she is. trust me. she never finished highschool! I already have plans, i know what i want to do, i know i cant live with my father because he doesnt even have a place. actually i dont even know where hes at! i know i can take care of myself. i can get a good job. I know one person who is willing to take me in. well actually i know a lot of people but im willing to stay with this one person. no i dont like them. but they know what im going threw and they told me about this, i dont want to feel like im nothing. i want to be encouraged to do the things i know i can do! believe me, i am amazing in the medical feild. im great at math, and everything else. i read a lot. i write books, everything else, but she is always in my way, i already told her i will be alright without her. she's already threatend me to go live with my father BUT WHERE THE HELL IS HE!? could someone just reply or send me a message please? i need help :(
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06-04-2011, 05:58 PMcbgRe: Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
First of all, there are only two states that will even consider emancipating a 15 year old, and neither of them is Tennessee.
Second, in every state, NO reason is good enough unless the minor, of whatever age, has already demonstrated their PROVEN ability to support themself without aid. That does NOT mean lving with someone else - that means showing the judge that you are capable of paying rent (market rate, not a token for living in someone else's house while they pay the bills), utilities, food, clothing, medical care, transportation, insurance, staples and all the other incidentals of life. While you do not necessarily need to be living alone, you do need to be able to demonstrate to the judge that you will not become a burden on the taxpayers if the people you are living with are collectively hit by a bus, or decide to kick you out, or are transferred to New Zealand and can't/won't take you with them. Unless you can prove this (once you are old enough, of course, and assuming that your state will emancipate a minor in the first place) then your reason for wanting emancipation is irrevelant. And no matter what state you are in, it is highly unlikely that you will be emancipated in violation of your mother's wishes. -
06-04-2011, 07:32 PMHarrietRe: Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
StrongSoul - you need to talk to a school counselor about what is going on in your home.
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06-05-2011, 05:34 AMflyingronRe: Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
We'll repeat. Emancipation is not a procedure for getting out of an abusive house. We don't legally sanction the ability to just run away. If your home life is purely abusive rather than just not to your particular liking, emancipation isn't going to happen, alternative placement will occur. As pointed out, talk to a school counselor, or call 800-4-a-child to get someone to talk to about your options.
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06-05-2011, 06:58 AMcyjeffRe: Am I Eligible to Become Emancipated
Maybe if we say this again...
No child will ever be emancipated if their entire reason for leaving a home that puts a roof over their head, food in their belly and clothes on their back is that mom and I fight.
Just won't happen.
Oh, and kid... you aren't a qualified mental health professional. You don't get to make a medical diagnosis regardless of what you read on WebMD. -
06-05-2011, 09:35 AMHarrietRe: Am I Eligible to Become EmancipatedWho made a medical diagnosis?Quote:
Quoting cyjeff