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  • 07-30-2008, 01:37 PM
    Abby_gale
    Is There Any Chance I Can Get Emancipated?
    I currently live in Florida and at the time I will try to become emancipated I will be 16 or 17, employed, and a high school graduate with some college credits.
    When I turn 17 I want to move to the state I plan to attend college in. I don't plan on starting college for a year after moving so I can become a resident in that state and gain in-state tuition. As a seventeen year old I need to be emancipated to move and become a resident.

    There are no problems in my home life and I am concerned that even though emancipation will make my college tuition much, much smaller it wont be granted since it isn't a last resort case.

    Also I have been home schooled practically all my life. Will that have any effect on the process?

    Is it even worth trying?

    If so, where can I go to get more information about situations like mine?

    My parents are okay with the idea and are willing to file the papers.

    Thank you very much. :)
  • 07-30-2008, 01:40 PM
    cyjeff
    Re: Is There Any Chance I Can Get Emancipated?
    Did you even look at the emancipation sticky? Did you search "emancipation" from the "Search" feature above?

    Then you will realize that a vanishingly small number of children are emancipated every year... none to live in another state...none without a means of support (not "gonna have"... you have to have a stable work history).

    You being emancipated, by the way, won't effect your tuition at all. Most college students are legally emancipated because they are over 18.
  • 07-30-2008, 01:46 PM
    Abby_gale
    Re: Is There Any Chance I Can Get Emancipated?
    I read the sticky and searched the entire forum and found information that helped, but I didn't find anything that pertained to my situation.

    I just turned sixteen and I am looking for a job. I don't plan on even trying for emancipation for a year or so. So I will have a work history.

    I'm not trying for a scholarship. I'm trying to become a resident of Virginia so I can have what every other resident is entitled to: in-state tuition. As opposed to out of state which is like three times as much.
  • 07-30-2008, 01:55 PM
    cyjeff
    Re: Is There Any Chance I Can Get Emancipated?
    You don't understand.

    You won't have a work history in Virginia.

    You want to move to a different state without a means of supporting yourself. That won't happen.

    Emancipation is for children that NEED the rights of adults to survive. Not for children that WANT to be emancipated.

    If you look up and see a roof you aren't paying for, wearing clothes that someone else bought, and your meals typically come from a kitchen that you don't stock, your chances of emancipation are almost none.

    Emancipation is for the very rich (that can show they will be able to easily support themselves) and for the very poor (that are already taking care of themselves. You are neither.
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