Can I Be Emancipated

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Florida



Hello, Im only fifteen years of age turning sixteen in a few days. I live in a home of pain and suffering. My mother is abusive and my brother is a drug addict. I want to file for a Emacipation because My girlfriend is pregnant and insted of my mom letting me live with her to take care of the child, she's suggesting we abort the child. So I want to file for an Emancipation so I can take care of my child and so I don't have to live with the abuse of my mother and my brother anymore.:(

Emancipation isn't so you can live with your Child's Mother.

If you're being abused you need to contact your local department of children and youth.

In Florida, you do not file for emancipation, your parents do. If your parents will not file the petition, you cannot be emancipated. Period, end of story.

But even if your parents were to agree, there is no way on earth a judge is going to emancipate someone so that you can live with your girlfriend, pregnant or not. In fact, her being pregnant is a bar to emancipation, not a way around the law.

Her pregnancy is a serious impediment to her emancipation; he's not pregnant. But being fifteen, having parents unwilling to bring a petition as required in Florida, having no means to support himself... those will all prevent emancipation.

No, My Father has agreed to file the petition to emacipate me. And Im only turning 16 in about a few days

OK, your Dad says he'll sign. What about your Mom?

And how do you intend to support yourself? How long have you had a job that pays wages sufficient to support yourself?

Rent money, you will find, does not magically rain from the sky.

If you're living in a "home of pain and suffering", tear your fingers from the keyboard for half a second and call your local CPS or the National Hotline at 1-800-4-A-CHILD.

THAT is how you handle an abusive situation.

And your noncustodial parent offering to emancipate you may have a hidden agenda.

Your mom's voice will count also... probably more than dad's.