Emancipation in Washington State

I dont have any kind of terrible living situation, my parents are rather strict with me but that is the extent of our discomforts. However, at the ripe old age of 17 and a few months I am very interisted in being emancipated. I make $8.25 an hour, work often, save well and I am going to college through the Running Start program. I have not graduated but I am ready to do so (complications with my college do not allow me to) I have someone ready to move in with me and help with rent, grocerys and utilities. They have a very reliable job making $19 an hour as well. I have a car but have about $1500 more to pay off on it. I am paying to my father as he bought the car outright so I could drive to work and I have been faithfully paying him back. My parents are very against my moving out though, and im wondering how that will affect a judges decision. What kind of chance do I have of being free? Moving out would be in my best interists because I am so far away from my college and work that most of the money I spend ends up as gas money. Also, I seem to be a perfectly happy normal teenager when I am not in their house, but the minute I start that long, lonely road back I become very sad and depressed. I spend as much time as possible away from that hellhole, I have not considered it my home for a number of years now. What chance do I stand of having a judge see things my way? And what can I do to improve my chances of liberation?
Thank you, Jitters

If your parents oppose the petition for emancipation, under WA state law you will have to prove that not being emancipated will HARM you. Not, that you will be uncomfortable having to drive back and forth to college, not that you have to spend most of your money on gas, but that not being emancipated will be detrimental to your well-being. It does not sound, from what you've said, that you will be able to meet that burden, particularly when you will be 18 in a few months anyway. Nothing you have posted suggests that there is any valid reason to emancipate you a few months early.

BTW, $8.25 an hour is NOT anything close to sufficient to support yourself, particularly when you take into consideration that in making the determination as to whether you are self-supporting, only your earnings, not your roommate's, will be considered.