How Do You Qualify for Emancipation

My question involves a marriage in the state of: Oklahoma
I'm 16 years old and I want to know if i'm able to qualify for emancipation once I have a job and what I need to do to get emancipated.
I have very complicated reasons why I want to be emancipated. Me and my mom don't get along at all and I know thats normal with all teenagers but with me and her its different. I lost my dad passed away in 2001 and it has caused a lot of issues with the way me and my mom communicate. Were always fighting. After my dad died she was a alcoholic and did drugs. I was five when my dad died and she abandonded me at my grandmas all the time. She chose drugs over me when I was a kid. Now she has stopped doing drugs and I hate her for leaving me like that when I was a kid and I hold that against her. She drank everyday from morning all the way 'till night and when she drinks she goes crazy. Now she has stopped drinking. Now I have held a grudge against her because all the stuff shes put me through. . But now I just hate her. I make a average of c+ in school, which isn't too bad for all the stuff I have going on outside of school life. My mom's always threatening to send me off to a girls home, my grandpa in Arizona, or my grandma in New Mexico always saying i'm such a bad kid when I stay home all the time to clean for her and only get paid 10$ a week for doing it everyday. I have a step dad but me and him don't get along that great either. He's always saying hes so much better then my dad. All my life i've had hard times. And they only make it harder.Every since I was 11 i've planned to runaway but i've never been able to do it. I've been waiting for when I was 16 and now i'm 16. I've been saving up money for a car but thats hard to do when you have no job. My mom lost my birth certificate and my social security card so i've been waiting for my birth certificate so I can hurry up and get a job. Recently things have been really bad between me and my mom. We are always fighting because shes bi polar and she'll just randomly snap at me. Sometimes she tells me she wants me out of the house but I have to wait until i'm 18 but I don't think she knows what emancipation is. I'm trying to keep this short but this isn't even all the reasons why I want emancipated but if I put all the reasons this would be extremely long.

You do not qualify for emancipation.

Emancipation isn't for kids who don't like their home situation. It's meant for minors who through no fault of their own find themselves needing the legal ability to keep the power on, and things like that.

Please read this forum.

And honestly? Why you think you should be paid for doing chores is beyond me.

In Oklahoma, an emancipated minor can do one thing and one thing only that an unemancipated minor can not, and that is own property. An emancipated minor in OK does NOT have the right to move out if her parents say no.

However, I can see quite a number of things in your post that mean an emancipation petition would be unceremoniously denied, even if OK would allow you to move out.

1.) A C+ average in school may or may not be "bad" given your circumstances but you'd have to get that up to a B+ or even an A- before a judge would even consider approving emancipation - and even then he might not. It's a sure thing that if you were living on your own (and having to do 100% of all the chores because there won't be anyone else to do them, btw) and work enough hours to completely support yourself, your grades will take a nosedive, so they have to be high enough so that the resulting drop won't kill them completely.

2.) You not only do not have an income sufficient to pay all of your own expenses, you do not have a job at all. Do you realize that in states where emancipation means what you want it to mean (i.e. living on your own), you, just you, and nobody else but you, has to be able to pay 100% of your own rent (market rate, not a token for living in your best friends' or your boyfriends' parents houses), utilities, food, clothing, insurance, medical care, transportation, staples, school fees and supplies? A judge is not going to emancipate you so that you can live off the taxpayers or another family/friend.

3.) Emancipation is not and never was intended to be a means for a teen to leave home. It was and is intended to be a means to provide legal protections to those teens who, for reasons outside their own control, found themselves on their own. In other words, about the only reason that's good enough is some variation of "My parents were killed in a car crash and I need to be emancipated so that I can pay the rent and the light bill and take care of my younger siblings".

So EVEN IF emancipation in your state would allow you to move out, the chances of your being emancipated are about zero.

You really have it easy. My kids only get about $5 per week. I hope they don't see this thread.:grumpy:

Could emancipation work in tennessee if your 16 and have a chance of going to state custody but you want to stay out?

No.

(Short answer)

No. That is not what emancipation is for.

Read the above posts.

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Quoting wanting2stay*put

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Could emancipation work in tennessee if your 16 and have a chance of going to state custody but you want to stay out?

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No. Not even close. Read about all the other children wishing for the same thing. The state is where you would go, upon removal.