I Want To Live My Life

I'm 15 years old, I'll be 16 in November. I live in Missouri and I want to know how i can get emancipated quickly without parental consent or joining the army or getting married. Right now I'm living a very crazy life and I cant handle it anymore. My oldest sister left our house at age 16 and has been in and out of the house for years, she's now 21. My mom bought a house in a completely different town from where i was going to school, so my parents would live in a town about 30 miles from my 18 year old sister and I. We basically lived alone. Now that my 18 year old sister is moving away to college I become the oldest of all my siblings. I dont like living with my parents at all. They verbally abuse me and threaten me all the time. I just cant take their stress anymore. My parents are always ignoring me and when i need money they only supply me with like $20 for a whole week and that will get you nowhere in this expensive world. I barely even live with my parents now. During the end of my school year I would stay with my grandparents, my older sister's boyfriends family, and many of my friends. I have recently been spending weeks at a time with my best friend and her family. My best friend has already given me a house key for me to stay there with her and her family. Her parents love me and they can support me in anyways possible. I am getting a job this summer to make my own money to live and I want to move out away from my parents soon. I just dont think i can handle their painful words any more. I know for sure they wont give me permission to move out because I've already tried. I need some legal advice that can get me emancipated quickly without parent consent. Like I said I'm 15 and live in Missouri.

Quoting Missouri Emancipation Law
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In Missouri, a minor may be emancipated in one of three ways:
1) your parents may give express consent to a court that they are waiving their parental rights;

2) your parents may give implied consent, which would apply in situations where you have been living on your own, supporting yourself, and for all practical purposes your parents have relinquished their parental rights; and

3) you experience a significant change in your societal status-such as an enlistment in the military or marriage.
As in Kansas, emancipation requires the ruling of a judge.


At 15 you do not qualify for emancipation

There's a simple answer to your question; you CANNOT get emancipated quickly, or at all, without parental consent or without joining the military or getting married.

At 15 you cannot be emancipated at all. The process is never quick.