Options For Niece

my niece has recently filed for emancipation from her mother/stepfather. She is 17 years old and will be 18 in just a few months. She wants to move from the state she is currently living and move with my husband and myself. She works a part-time job plus is in the National Guard. Would it be best for her to try the emancipation or for us to be her legal guardians. I am planning on going to the hearing for court and being there to tell the judge that she will be living with us. We have a stable christian family and she would continue her service here in our state with the National Guard.

Being emancipated is about self support. Living with you does not meet that criteria.

Emancipation laws are different in each state. Also, she won't have her job if she moves to another state.

Her best bet, being a few months from her eighteenth birthday, is to try to convince her parents to let her live with you.