Can You Get Emancipated if Your Parents Won't Let You Date

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Nevada
I am a 16 year old girl living in Las Vegas with my brother and my mom, we get food support from the state and medical from the state as of 8 months ago. Before that I had no medical such as doctors, dentist, exc. for almost 4 years. I was on track to graduate a year early from Highschool and was accepted into doing a National Youth Leaderships Forum for Medical. I am a lesbian and have been in a 2 year relationship with my girlfriend, my mother does not except me for it and the day my girlfriend turned 18 my mother decided to say she didn't want me seeing her and that I should look into guys now. I still saw my girlfriend at school and then my mom was angry about that so she took me out of school and put me into a homeschool that does not give me any credits it just says I go to school, she said it was because she couldn't afford schools that gave me credit. I am working at a Justice making $8.40 an hour and am about to be working at Mandalay Bay making $10 an hour, which shows my income. My mother has been neglecting me from any social interaction, rightful school education, and she is a compulsive liar to the point where she believes her own lies (she lies to the state about where we're living and she lies to her friends about why I'm out of school). She verbally abuses me, emotionally drains me daily, and is very aggressive and tends to yell a lot. She doesn't let me go to any LGBT community gatherings to feel more comfortable and gain support because she is against me liking girls, so I have no support from anyone besides my step father who lives separately and my girlfriends family. I make my own money, have a job, and my girlfriends family (and also my aunt) has a spare bedroom they would allow me to stay in without paying rent until I can get my own apartment. I am worried if I do trial for the emancipation that if I don't get it I will go back home and get abused and even more neglected by my mother. I do not feel supported or loved in my house and my mother often spends the money she does make from being a nanny on either getting her nails done or more often buying cigarettes. I am curious on what other things I need to become emancipated and tips.

You need to be living away from your parents, able to support yourself fully while making better-than-normal grades at school, and that's the easy part.

Emancipation is not meant to be a way for unhappy teens to escape their parents; it's meant to allow a teen who is forced to live apart the ability to get the power turned on in their name, that sort of thing.

Then again, you can read the multitude of threads in this section pertaining to the same issue.

Thank you for your response, I can support myself and I talked to a past lawyer about it and he said I fit qualifications except for not living apart from my mom but she does not let me be social to live apart from her

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Thank you for your response, I can support myself and I talked to a past lawyer about it and he said I fit qualifications except for not living apart from my mom but she does not let me be social to live apart from her

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Okey dokey then.

Good luck with that.

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Thank you for your response, I can support myself and I talked to a past lawyer about it and he said I fit qualifications except for not living apart from my mom but she does not let me be social to live apart from her

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If you are waiting for your mom's consent or anybody here to guarantee that you would qualify for emancipation, none of that is going to happen.

Read the statute:

http://minors.uslegal.com/emancipati...ncipation-law/

Before you can even file for emancipation your must be living apart from your parents with the "consent or acquiescence" of your parents.

What that says to me is that you don't need your mom's express consent, only that she does nothing to get you back once you leave.

You also have to be attending school as well as all the other requirements.

If you want to take a shot at this, consider just leaving and going to stay with your friend's family. Get back into school ASAP. Start saving every nickel of your earnings that you can muster.

If, after a couple of months, your mom hasn't sent the police to haul you back as a runaway, then file your petition according to the statutory requirement and see how it goes.

Worst case scenario, you end up back living with your mom and you'll have to stick it out until you can try again or survive until you are 18.

Before you take Jack's advice, which is unusually stupid advice coming from him, you might want to stop and think about what happens if your mom DOES report you as a runaway and send the cops, or come herself, to get you home. I didn't see anything in your post indicating that Mom was willing to let you leave.