Depressed At Home And Want Emancipation

google hasn't done anything

i'm sixteen

depressed and my family just everyday when i come home make me feel like i am incompitant and that i can't do anything right and just are down right mean to me

i'm the only one that cooks and cleans

they constantly want me to change

everyday when i wake up i know i am going to feel the same way

and i just wanted to know in the state of maine what is the legal age of emancipation

and what must i do in order to be emancipation

my parents wouldn't sign anything and i was wondering if i needed them to or if i needed to have proof that it just isn't a good life where i am living

Are you living on your own?

Do you have a job? Are you paying your own bills?

If the answers to these questions isn't yes, I am not even going to bother looking it up for you....because you don't have a chance.

One more thing....

You complain about cooking and cleaning.

When you get your own place, did you think they came with a maid and cook? Ohhhhh, you know they don't. So you would be okay with cooking and cleaning then?

Chores are not abuse.

If you cannot find emancipation in a simple google search you are not ready to live on your own.

i don't have any bills of my own

my parents won't allow me to get a cell phone

in which case i would pay my own bill

i have purchased the computer i am working on right now it isn't the best but at least it functions enough to use

i have a job only during the summer and early spring

but i get a lil over 1200 for it

it isn't much but it coveres all my schooling suplies clothes and everyyear a new bike to easily get from place to place when i can use it

i have a job set up if i do move out

my parents don't allow to work unless it is for family

i know mechanics decantly enough to fix my 83 ford which i can't even use untill i get my liscense

i have done all the paperworks for my freind bills and stuff

i know how to do it and i got a place where i will more then likely be able to move into

pitch in rent help pay bills and food

i am currently in homeschooling for getting in trouble at highschool

i figured better then dropping out but i am not getting any help from my parents to do work the state hasn't sent over the tutor or anything

everything is all up to my own and next school year i was hoping to jump back into my school at my attended grade of start and icf program where i go to my high school grab a packet of work for a week and use their books

i just need to be out of my house

and it isn't even really my parents that make me want to leave

Nothing in your post suggest you meet criteria for emancipation

i wouldn't mind chores

if it wasn't everyday i had to babysit my neice not get paid for it

if their wasn't eight people here that did nothing

my parents work all week all day

but you know eighyt people eat three meals a day and everyday i have to clean and not get paid for it

almost everyday i have to clean the floors no pay

i am the youngest one beside my neice living here

my brother come home form school works on his truck trying to get it ready last year of his highschool career

my brother comes home and is nothing but a douche to me

he yells at me when ever something goes wrong or if he didn't find something of his right off

most expensive thing i own that doesn't belong to me is my jay turner guitar

160 dollars

i had to by the amp cords and pedal

and i do clean everyday but it doesn't matter around here

it is still always messy

i used to love cooking

when i would get help cleaning

i just feel like if they didn't actually make me feel like i wasn't supposed to be here and make or try to make me do everything i would be a lil happier

i'm stranded here all day around the people that make me wanna wish i was gone

i hope for the weekend where i can go see my freind and maybe get money for babysitting so i can buy something when i am hanging out with my freinds

the only time i feel happy is when i buy a bag of weed

and i don't wan't to have to rely on weed to make me happy in my house

it's something no one needs

but yet to feel happy and not angry at myself and them i feel like i need it

so if you guys don't think i can live on my own

i only wish you could feel being 5 4

16 years old 180 lbs not fat mind you muscle because up tioll now my brothers would gang up on me untill i was strong enough to beat them both living not even in town to hang out with my freind who all live out of a 20 minute car ride away

i've even walked the 3 and a half multiple time just to get away form my house

i had a my fitth urinary track infection

something men rarely get and i had to beg to go to the hospital because we don't get benfits because my parents are part time

my parents make just 25 dollars over the income before the state will help

and i had to beg to go to the hospital because my parents didn't want to pay for the bills

i even offered to pay

so by living on my own with my own job with my freinds, paying for what in turn i need to keeping at school

i hope to feel like i have to run away to get some peace in a house hold, and where i don't want to feel like i need a drug to feel good with myslef, where no one wants to listen only be heard and not want to do anything

sometimes i come back form my freind and their is not a clean dish in the house so i have to do the dishes just to get a glass of milk or juice

so instead of saying stuff i have heard over and over just tell me what i need to do

cause if it can't help me feel good then i don't want to listen

What you need to do is what your parents say!

my dad smoke more weed then cheech and chong no joke

it isn't something that becomes impossible to get after college

i don't want end up like him

he smoked pot to make him happy but he also had a maid cleans his house when he was a kid cause my grandfather owned a meat shop at thwe end of the depression till 2001

my dad got his first job in tens year not even a month ago

he lives with me but he doesn't even look at me

my mom works outside in her shop doing embroidery

comes in to eat lunch and watch her soaps when she doesn't like being disturb then heads of to her job where they keep below full time by mears hours so they won't give her benefits

i don't knwo where you live but their arent' any job around here up for grabs unless you want to work in fast food and wlmart

places where you drop out and work

so what if you are the highest payed cashier or meat cutter
it only 10.50 with prices of gas and keeping 8 people fed

getting payed everother week

their isn't much you know so i want my own job,take care of myself,go to school, and be happy

so what i need to do is what my parents say panther

what if their not theirs for you to talk to

i'm living in a place going no where fast

no jobs beside the job which i would take during high school if i was aloud to work

i don't get payed in a place where i if i worked i would be doing half of what i am doing at home

i am educating myself on the weekend feeding my self
walking sometimes to the store 3.5 hour walk cause it is winter and i can't ride my bike quiote yet up here in maine

i feel like i could properly live on my own

and don't think i am not mature enough to live on my own

i know how to do taxes i've done them and bills for my grandfather for the past three years

my grandfather has to slip me money for it cause my parents said i would do it for free

so yeah listen to my parents and get where there going just as fast

Nothing in your post suggest you meet criteria for emancipation.

Emancipation depends on YOUR actions, not someone else's.

If you have a job and support yourself 100%, then you are emancipated.

acording to a police officer i need to do something with my state

in which case i have a lawyer come in and talk to my family and seeing if their agreeing to sign an emancipation

if not i have a court hearing where they look at both my actions and how my house hold is

and if the judge doesn't feel i should be emancipation then he/or she will have the state send some one in the house hold to help me and my family

i hvae also looked this up on google and it said the same as the officer

but i can't find where to go to have the state send me a lawyer

the police officer didn't know where to go

(noah)

(i know what needs to be done and how to do it

but where may i find the material to do so

and god sent down all the materials needed to build his ark)

unfortunately i don't have god sending me the paper work or i would be here asking for help not people opinion on my life

TITLE 15. COURT PROCEDURE—CRIMINAL


PART 6. MAINE JUVENILE CODE


CHAPTER 511. INTERIM CARE; RUNAWAYS




§ 3506-A. Emancipation.


1. PETITION FOR EMANCIPATION. If a juvenile is 16 years of age or older and refuses to live in the home provided by his parents, guardian or custodian, he may request the District Court in the division in which his parents, guardian or custodian resides to appoint counsel for him to petition for emancipation.


2. CONTENTS OF PETITION. The petition shall state plainly:


A. The facts which bring the juvenile within the court's jurisdiction and which form the basis for the petition;


B. The name, date of birth, sex and residence of the juvenile; and


C. The name and residence of his parent or parents, guardian or custodian.


2-A. MEDIATION. Upon the filing of a petition and prior to a hearing under this section, the court may refer the parties to mediation. Any agreement reached by the parties through mediation on any issues shall be stated in writing, signed by the parties and presented to the court for approval as a court order.


3. HEARING. On the filing of a petition, the court shall schedule a hearing and shall notify the parent or parents, guardian or custodian of the date of the hearing, the legal consequences of an order of emancipation, the right to be represented by legal counsel and the right to present evidence at the hearing. Notice shall be given in the manner provided in the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 4, for service of process.


4. ORDER OF EMANCIPATION. The court shall order emancipation of the juvenile if it determines that:


A. The juvenile has made reasonable provision for his room, board, health care and education, vocational training or employment; and

B. The juvenile is sufficiently mature to assume responsibility for his own care and it is in his best interest to do so.

5. DENIAL OF PETITION. If the court determines that the criteria established in subsection 4 are not met, the court shall deny the petition and may recommend that the Department of Human Services provide continuing services and counseling to the family.


6. APPEAL. Any person named in the petition who is aggrieved by the order of the court may appeal to the Superior Court.


7. PUBLIC PROCEEDING; EXCEPTION. Notwithstanding section 3307, subsection 2, paragraph B, the court shall not exclude the public unless the minor or the minor's parent or parents, guardian or custodian, requests that the public be excluded and the minor or the minor's parent or parents, guardian or custodian, does not object. If the public is excluded, only the parties, their attorneys, court officers and witnesses may be present.

im 15 turning 16 in july i have no dad never ment him..

my life completely sucks... im suppost to be in school i go to the learning center which is online classes im only allowed to go for 3 or 4 hours n expected to graduate in 2010

im home all day..i have 2 sisters 1 brother..

im the one who wakes up to get them ready 4 school im the one who cooks n cleans...and i dont get a simple thank you for it...(when she dont even work not at all no part-time job or nothing)

me n my mom argue over the littlest thing and sometimes this arguments aren't just verbal they get physical most the time i cant even go to school cause of how bad my face has marks...

ive ranaway twice and i always come back with a promise that "everything will change"...nothing ever changes

she recently got married and my new step dads really nice but he works all day and when he dont im the one doing bad..she always comes up with something to say...that i did wrong....

i want to get emancipated but dont know if i would be able to do that because of how ive ran away and even if i could past that...she wouldnt sign no paper..shed come up with the simply idea that i just want to go be a #*3...

i dont know when things go so bad i can rember when me and her use to talk all the time and arguing was never happening sounds cheesy but we use to have the perfect little family now i have to take depression pills every 3 hours (my perfect little family disappeared)...

know i have one of my sisters and my brother who want to go live with there dad there not my blood brother n sister but i love them and they deserve better...

so my simple question is"Do you leave your mom when shes the one that gave you life and you love her past everything even thew all the abuse? or Do you stay and keep having your life and dreams crushed more every day?"...."What would you do".....

p.s- Don't feel sorry...Your not living it the nightmare..

Maritza start your own thread and not hijack someone elses please

i see where you are coming from but if you think about it you are not really ready to move out! you may have to do a little work but what will you do if you want to raise a family. you will have to do the same thing but maybe worse depending on your kids lol:confused::wallbang: