Do I Qualify to Get Emancipated

He doesn't have the ability to say "I don't want to be a parent any more" and stop paying support. Also, child support is payable to mom, not to you.

Keep in mind that if you have a joint bank account with a family member, your parents may not be able to take your money but your family member can. Choose carefully, because that does happen.

Thank you again. They legally can't I just want to emulate myself from my real dad atleast so that they stop trying to threaten me to live with him.

Another odd question what happens if my real dad gives up his parental rights does that mean the child support stops and I can do it that way?

In the exceedingly unlikely event that the court is willing to allow your dad to give up his parental rights, then yes, child support would stop.

It would in no way impact the answers you have been given. You would STILL not be able to be emancipated unless you had permission to move out of the house and were able to pay 100% of your own support - then MAYBE the state MIGHT deign to consider you emancipated. But probably not.

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Quoting LeeLeeG

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Thank you again. They legally can't I just want to emulate myself from my real dad atleast so that they stop trying to threaten me to live with him.

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It's not your decision.

You live where your parents say until you're of the age of majority.

I strongly suggest you actually start reading about what emancipation is and isn't - because you're not seeming to grasp that.

Okay, since you don't seem to be understanding:

Emancipation does not mean, as you seem to believe, "divorcing" a parent. Emancipation is a declaration by a court (or in NJ and a couple of other states, a tacit agreement by the state) that you are a legal, self-supporting adult. Emancipation does not mean that you are free from interference from one (or both) parents but that they continue to provide for you; it means that you, just you, and nobody else but you is responsible for your support. If you parents say that you live with your mom, then you live with your mom. If they say that you live with your dad, then you live with your dad. As long as you are even one minute under the age of 18, it is not up to you, and I can promise you that based on what you have posted, you WILL NOT be emancipated. You are not even close to qualifying.

I agree with Doggie that you do not appear to understand what it is that you are asking for.

I do infact know what I'm asking for I just know literal emancipation isn't going to happen for me so I'm trying to explore my other options. I can tell you one thing though something has to change. There must be a law against what my parents are doing by using my child support money to support their "habits" let's just say and taking most of my pay check to pay the mortgage on a property that they own.

It's not - and never was - your child support money.

They are legally allowed to charge you rent/board. You don't like it? Stop working. They can't take what you don't have.

I don't know where so many children get the idea that the child support money is supposed to go to them. The money reimburses the supporting parent for the costs they incurred in supporting you. The supporting parent can use it in any way they like.

It's the mortgage on the property where you've got a roof over your head, which they are required, by law, to provide you. If you've got that roof, a couple of changes of weather appropriate clothing, clean running water, and food available to you every day, then the child support is being spent appropriately. Period. End of story. It's not YOUR child support money - it's money that one parent who isn't providing you food, clothing, or shelter, pays to the other parent, who is.

Okay just an update I got into some trouble and my mom and stepdad said that "they cant handle me anymore and if I could get my real dad to consent to the emancipation paperwork (sign it) they'll sign it too and I can go by myself and they won't help me out financially or anything." this would never happen believe me my real dad is a control freak but does what they're saying make any sense to anyone like I've heard of this happening and being a ward of the state or taken to a shelter or being adopted but what are they talking about? It would still have to go to court right? I'm just curious I gave up on it anyway it would take too long I'd be 18 by the time everything got finalized anyway.