Emancipation Rights in New York

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: New York

I'm going to be 17 in 5 months and want to be emancipated. But all the information I've looked at so far about going through the process says you have to be living apart from your family, I have a full time job at the moment, and I'm making plans with my boyfriend (who is already 18) to move into our own place by the end of the year. The issue is how can you live apart from your family without being classified as a runaway if they wanted to involve the police?

My parents are very concerned about their image, and how something like this would make them look to their friends and family which is why they would definitely not allow me to just move out at 17, and my mother is not willing to give her consent.

My reasons why I want to be emancipated don't really matter, I just need to understand how I can show the court that I can support myself if I'm not allowed to leave without their permission. Is their something that overrides that runaway law? Or is it just a matter of having parents that don't mind?

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My question involves juvenile law in the State of: New York

I'm going to be 17 in 5 months and want to be emancipated. But all the information I've looked at so far about going through the process says you have to be living apart from your family, I have a full time job at the moment, and I'm making plans with my boyfriend (who is already 18) to move into our own place by the end of the year. The issue is how can you live apart from your family without being classified as a runaway if they wanted to involve the police?

My parents are very concerned about their image, and how something like this would make them look to their friends and family which is why they would definitely not allow me to just move out at 17, and my mother is not willing to give her consent.

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Short answer? You can't live apart without permission.

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My reasons why I want to be emancipated don't really matter, I just need to understand how I can show the court that I can support myself if I'm not allowed to leave without their permission. Is their something that overrides that runaway law? Or is it just a matter of having parents that don't mind?

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Your reasons will matter to the court. Emancipation is not meant to be used to shack up with one's boyfriend. That little factoid will likely kill your petition immediately, except it won't even be heard without parental approval. There is no way to show it is the answer. Are you still in school? How are your grades? How are you planning to work enough to earn enough to fully support yourself, on your own, within restrictions on working while in school?

Even if you were to get emancipated, there are still many things you would have to go to your parents for permission to do. Making it an adversarial process isn't likely to convince them to help out.

You can't. This is not what emancipation is about. It's not a procedure for escaping parental enslavement, it's a procedure for recognizing an already independent minor so they can do certain things not normally permitted that they need to do to live (enter into contracts, etc...).

You leave against your parents wishes, you are a runaway and emancipation will not fix that.
A judge is NOT going to emancipate a runaway. Sorry. You'll have to sweat it out for another 17 months.