Emancipation in Arkansas

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Arkansas

I am current seventeen, I will be 18 in June of this year. I am finishing my last year of high school. Last night I ran away. And was quickly returned home. :mad: Now I am on suicide watch, though I am not dumb enough for something like that.

I told my sister I was thinking about I kept a journal, which has now been destroyed. I was ready one day but that was over a month ago. It came out again and people went crazy saying if I went home I would kill myself, I NEVER said that to anyone!!!!!!! :wallbang: :wallbang:

I was wondering, if I had someone willing to keep me with her, my 35 year old cousin, if I could be emancipated.

My parents have been divorced since before I was born. I have been with my father since I was roughly four. I cannot stand living in my house anymore. I am tired of my step mother. He has full custody of me

I guess there is not 'REAL' reason I want out of my house. But that woman makes me so angry and I have finally figured out it is her. All I heard last night when I got home was HER HER HER HER. And I was told I was going to be treated like a prisioner and that I should go straight to the mental house. She was completly hysterical. She took everything I could 'kill' myself out of my room. Even my clothes and purses.I am sorry but if I was really unstable. Would this be what I need to be living in?

Even if you were a candidate for emancipation - which no one on suicide watch EVER is - the petition would take nearly a year to be heard and acted upon, by which time you'll be well past the age of majority.

Suck it up for the 6 months you've got left. Get a job, start socking money away, and on your 18th birthday, pack your bags and leave.

And seek help.

You are either suicidal and everyone knows it but you OR you played drama queen and convinced everyone you were suicidal.

Either way, you should really talk to someone.