How Likely is It to Get Emancipated

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Virginia.
My family used to be happy, but that was just for a brief period of time. Ever since I was a child my father had been on deployments due to being in the Navy. It affected my family greatly. After I turned 7 we moved to Smithfield, Virginia. My father was offered a job in another state a year later, but my family decided it would be better for my sister, my mother, and me to stay here. My father communted. He lived in hotel rooms during the week and came home on the weekend. Due to this my family was torn apart.

My parents would always fight and that drove my sister and I crazy. There had always been a small amount of abuse from my sister to me, but my parents never seemed to do anything about it. One year my sister attacked me, my parents did nothing except yell at her and ground her. They didn't send her to counseling or anything.

My parents have gone through many stages of almost getting divorced. They have moved out and moved back in. This process has been very hard to go through. It has driven my father and I apart. One year it hit the top when my mother tried to kill herself by trying to jump out of a moving vehicle with my sister and I in the backseat and my father driving. She has been in thearpy since, but if you ask me she's still the same person just on medication.

My mother and I used to have a good relationship, but over the past year it has decreased enormously. I think it's because I keep remembering things that have happened in our family and then we get into fights because I remember those things. I know things aren't terrbile right now, but i'm always on edge. In fear that things will become that difficult again. I just want to get away from them because I feel like I could take care of myself better if I wasn't always afraid of things becoming miserable again. It's not like things aren't bad, they're always some lever of bad, but right now it's better than it has been. I'm still afraid though that it will become like it has been because that's what always happens in our family.

So I was wanting to know if I had a case?

There are laws for emacipation in virginia. The reason's I listed are not all of my reasons, but yes I am trying to leave a life with heartache. I fully believe that I would be better off on my own and that I could take care of my finances. Yes, my life would not be what I accpected, but I've thought about it and I think i'm okay with that.

Did you read this? As instructed.

yes. I read it after I posted this. I still believe that things will be very difficult for myself, but I believe I will be better off. I haven't made a decision yet, as I am not 16, but I am looking into all of my options and talking to people about what is best for me. I have made arrangements where after getting emancipated I would have a place to live and a job. So yes I understand the hardships that I would be faced with if I choose to go this path. All I was asking was is it possible to get emancipated based on my reasons?

No. It is not at all likely that you would be emancipated with your reasons.

Emancipation is based on NEED, not on WANT.

Emancipation is not, and never was, designed to allow teens to leave home. It was and is designed to provide legal protections to those teen who, through no fault of their own, found themselves on their own.

Okay look I'm only fifteen and I can say with complete and utter assurance that i'm more mature than a lot of people my age. And considering how this site is made for LEGAL HELP maybe you should learn what the word help means. Because trying to make someone feel like an idiot and like they're reasons for doing something are miscontrued is definitley not what help means.

The laws are what the laws are. We can't make them say something different.

No one is saying you're not in a tough situation. We're telling you that being in a tough situation is not a legal reason to be granted emancipation. We're not just making it up to be cruel to you.

Would you like it better if we said, oh, you poor dear, of course you'll be able to be emancipated, and then you found out that you couldn't when you went to apply? How would that help you?

Arguing that the law is unfair isn't helpful, as we're not able to change the law.