I Want to Be Emancipated

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Minnesota
I am a 17year old female from Minnesota. I live with my mother, step father, step grandma, step sister, and my half brother and sister. I have a job and am on track to graduate on time or early next year. I don't eat at home or at school only at work. I pay for my gas to get to my job and although I don't have a vehicle the place I have lined up to live is not that far from my job and I can walk. Or take them metro bus. I pay for my own phone bill, and am paying for my behind the wheels so I can get my drivers license and a car. My father was a drug addict and is now incarcerated until December. I see no need to live in the house I'm am living in. My mother is never home when I am, an aside from the house doesn't support me as far as all that goes anyway so I see no point, and do not wish to live here. Is there anyway I can be emancipated as soon as physically possible?

Where are you going to live?

How much are you earning?

How much money do you have? To get the case in the court it's going to run you about $3000 based on what one Minnesota lawyer estimates. If your parents object, it will be more costly.
It also takes time to get such cases heard. You'll likely find it more effective to save your money and bear it out for the rest of the year until you turn 18.

Minnesota appears to lack a specific process by which a minor can seek to be emancipated. However, with parental consent, through court decree, or through legal marriage (with parental consent) you can become emancipated.

You can try to bring the issue before the court, but it will not be easy and you may very well have to pay the aforementioned attorney to assist in the process. And, as flyingron mentioned, if your parents fight the emancipation then it may cost you more.

If it gets before a court somehow, a judge will want to hear WHY it is in your best interest to be emancipated and why it is NOT in your interest to remain where you are? What is the driving force behind wanting to leave home at 17? Is it to move in with a love interest? Can you pay ALL your living expenses without assistance AND successfully complete school?

Removing a parent's rights against their will is not something the court will undertake lightly. Absent some compelling, objective reason why you want to be free of your parents' shackles, a judge will simply not do it. Simply because you WANT to live somewhere else ain't gonna cut it.

Likely, by the time the court hears your case, you will be 18 anyway.....

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My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Minnesota
I am a 17year old female from Minnesota. I live with my mother, step father, step grandma, step sister, and my half brother and sister. I have a job and am on track to graduate on time or early next year. I don't eat at home or at school only at work. I pay for my gas to get to my job and although I don't have a vehicle the place I have lined up to live is not that far from my job and I can walk. Or take them metro bus. I pay for my own phone bill, and am paying for my behind the wheels so I can get my drivers license and a car. My father was a drug addict and is now incarcerated until December. I see no need to live in the house I'm am living in. My mother is never home when I am, an aside from the house doesn't support me as far as all that goes anyway so I see no point, and do not wish to live here. Is there anyway I can be emancipated as soon as physically possible?

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so, explain why you would bother? You have a roof over your head that is apparently not costing you anything. The "I see no need" to live in the house is a far cry from; it is a caustic situation here and I have to get out to preserve my sanity or life.


You might want to read some threads about how bad some tenants have it. They get stuck living next door to rock bands, drug dealers, families that appear to be vampires because the only time they make noise is the middle of the night. They can't move because they are either in a lease or can't afford any other place.

While it may not be all sunshine and candy canes where you are, the real world, for a person with very limited funds, can be a brutal, ugly, and overall bad place to be.