Help Getting My 16-Year-Old Fiancee Emancipated

I am 18 years old trying to do the same thing for my 16 year old girlfriend who I would like to be my fiancee. I need help but in Texas. I will post a new thread when i figure out how.:confused:

Where will the 16 year old live?
Where is the 16 year old working?
Is the 16 year olds income sufficent for self support?
Does the 16 year old have a plan for her continued education?

Or is this about hormones and playing house which by the way is illegal she is not age of consent!

You can't. Get your girlfriend emancipated, I mean.

She needs to prove to the court that she's fully capable of supporting herself 100%. That means paying her own housing costs (not living with someone else), paying her own bills, buying her own groceries, holding down a full-time job.

She needs to have a GOOD reason to be emancipated.

"I hate my parents", "I want my freedom" and "I want to live with my boyfriend" are NOT legitimate reasons. "Both of my parents died in a car accident and I'm now responsible for taking care of myself and my siblings" is.

Emancipation is for very rare, quite extraordinary circumstances, and fewer than 1% of emancipation petitions are granted nationwide.

If this has to do with wanting her to be emancipated so that she can come and live with you, stop right now. The chances that any judge will emancipate a minor so that she can live with her adult boyfriend/fiance/what have you is ZERO. Zip. Nada. Will not happen. You're wasting your time trying. And don't bother telling me how mature she is and how badly her parents treat her because it won't change the answer.

if you decide to answer Panther's questions, include this one: What is her, not your, her, reason for wanting emancipation?

And I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that she is still living at home.

Well, that puts the breaks on your plan right there. At 16, she MUST be living (legally) seperate and apart from her family and recieving NO support of any kind.

Hope you can hold out until she is 18. That's your only option.

I would say, bite the bullet, and kiss major parent XXX, brown nose like you've never brown-nosed before... and then, ask them for her hand in marriage. a judge wont grant emancipation to her, that's for sure. But marriage will automatically emancipate her... as hard as you might think it would be to convince her parents to let you marry her, it would be even harder to convince a judge to emancipate her. Best of luck.

And when the parents tell you to get the *** out of their house and do not contact their daughter again because you had the presumption to follow the incredibly bad advice in the post above this one, it will be 100% legal and you will have no choice whatsoever except to stay away from her.

Come to my door and ask to take my minor daughter out of my home to playhouse with an adult and protective order would be least of your worries

Hey, I didn't say it would work... I just said he has a better chance convincing parents to allow marriage, than he would convincing a judge to emancipate her. A clean image, proper manors, and communication with her parents will go a long way. I would suggest spending time with her family, eating family dinners with them, even suggest her mom is her sister... that always makes mom smile. The thing is, when you get married... you aren't just marrying the woman at the end of the aisle. You marry the whole family.

He could also risk losing the GF! I will guess that Mom and Dad are ok with the relationship (for now) or he is seeing her without their (Parents) knowledge. If he tries to move too fast they (The parents) could end relationship. If he is seeing her without their knowledge he again risks losing her. Either way not a good idea. By the way why would it be a good idea to get a 16 year old out of her home? If shes being abused contact CPS