Emancipation from One Parent

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

Okay so I'm 16 years old and live with my mother and my stepfather. I have not seen my (biological) dad in 6 years, and I haven't talk to him in about 3 or 4. My mom keeps saying how she wants me to emancipate myself from my biological father... (she has reason) but how does that work? How do you emancipate yourself from one parent, but not both/all? My mom has sole custody, obviously. It wouldn't be a custody battle... Can anyone help?

Your Mom isn't really on the right track - at all.

Emancipation means that you can prove to the court that YOU are self-supporting, generally already living outside of the home, AND capable of keeping good grades.

I doubt Mom has anywhere near a decent reason for wanting rid of your father.

There's no such thing as emancipation from one parent. If mom is talking about stepparent adoption, it may be feasible to terminate your father's rights within the context of the adoption proceedings. Otherwise we're talking about a child custody order, and mom already has sole custody.

she doesn't necessarily want my stepfather to adopt me, but she says its for my FAFSA next year. she doesn't want my biological father messing with it...

Not going to happen.

Sorry.

don't be sorry, it's not my idea. i was curious, that's all. i tried looking it up on google, but i couldn't find it.

It's great to be curious, Reese :)

If Mom has more questions though, she's absolutely free to sign up (it's not really fair to put you in the position of asking - even if she didn't and you're doing this voluntarily ;) ). We'll try to help if we can!

oh she doesn't know that i signed up... or that i asked. but i did tell her what i found. the thing is, she doesn't want his financial situation messing up the amount of financial aid i could get for college. on top of that, she doesn't trust him whatsoever.