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I'm sixteen years old and I want to be emancipated. I live with my mom and we don't get along at all, it's the same with my older brothers. It's a constant fight and I don't want to live here anymore. I have been offered a place to live with a close friend and I have a job so I have a good amount of money saved. I'm just wondering if I need to go to court or I read somewhere that a minor can just declare themselves emancipated. Is that true?
Do you have a full-time job and are you supporting yourself 100%?
If not, then you cannot be emancipated.
Well it's not a full time job because I'm still going to school. So that means that I can't be emancipated then?
This is a US based site and to my knowledge no one has yet produced a statute for Canadian emancipation. However if ther eis one and if its anything like ours you would need to be 100% self supporting part time work is not going to do that
Conventional wisdom is that, in Canada, a minor can set up an independent household at age 16. However, as panther10758 notes, there does not appear to be any legal authority that anybody can produce to support that position. Ask a Canadian family lawyer, or talk to a guidance counselor at school.
I did find this for Ontario - http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/en/forum...px?MSGID=96194
So I dug a little deeper and found:
Child and Family Services Act
Looking at the heading "runaways" from the link above, # 43 states that a warrant may be issued and the police or a child protection worker could apprehend if the parents give a sworn statement and the justice of the peace is satisfied with the statement.
However, that statement would have to be that the child is under the age of 16........