Can I Get Emancipated if I Get a Job
I currently live in Arizona and I am hoping you can help me because I don't know where else to turn. I am turning seventeen in a few months and I am looking for a job. I really want to get emancipated because I am sick of the emotional abuse, and stress I receive when I am home. When home I feel I am treated as if I don't matter and I am worth nothing. I feel absolutely useless at home and as a result I tend to become very depressed. I am talked down to and am treated as though I am nothing more than an insect on the wall. I can't handle it any longer, my boyfriend has offered to let me move in with him if I get emancipated. When I find a job I will be able to pay rent and afford food and clothing and all the necessities. I am currently going to school and will be graduating next year. I understand that this will make things a tad harder but I know I can do it. But my question is, what do I need to do to get emancipated. What is necessary and what isn't? What are my chances of being emancipated seeing as how I am bipolar? Please help me.
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The minute the court hears that your plan for independent living involves moving in with your boyfriend, your emancipation petition will be denied and you shooed out of the courtroom so fast your shoes will smoke. NO court in any jurisdiction will emancipate a minor to go live with his or her boyfriend/girlfriend.
When you actually have a job that will pay 100% of the market rate for rent in your area, utilities, food, clothing, medical care, prescriptions, transportation, insurance, staples, school fees and supplies, etc., while you are simultaneously going to school and getting better than average grades, come back and talk to us. Until then, keep this in mind; emancipation is not and never was intended to be a means for a minor to leave a bad situation. It was and is intended to be a means to provide legal protections to those minors who, for reasons outside their own control, found themselves living on their own.
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Thank you. Although I was hoping for a different answer because this now means I have to wait until I am 18. But thank you ror not getting my hopes up.
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What else can I do? I really want to move out but I know my mother won't condone. So is there anything else I could possibly do?
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You CANNOT move out without permission before 18. If your mother will not give you permission to move out, then you're not moving out.
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Hey - I just want to give you a bit of credit here.
You took that news very gracefully, and that's unfortunately rare in the emancipation forum.
Thank you :)
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Agreed. You're one of the very few teens looking for legal adulthood who actually shows adult maturity.
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Concur with Doggie and cbg. Most kids who come here looking for emancipation get pissed when we don't tell them what they want to hear.
Angel, you're going to be OK. Take it from someone who survived some brutal abuse (I nearly died), you'll be OK as long as you keep a level head. Keep taking your meds, keep working hard, you'll make it another year and you'll be OK.
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Thank you for saying that. I don't get that much no matter how hard I try to act as an adult. I appreciate your kind words. :)
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Thank you so much. That means a lot and I am sorry to hear about that. It means a lot. :)
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Thank you for your help. It does kind of lower my spirits that I have to wait until I am eighteen, but I am glad that I didn't start the process without looking for help first. I really do appreciate the help, more than you may know.