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Emancipation
My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Washington
I am currently 16 looking to be emancipated. I have talked to law officials about this and they say it should be like an 85% chance of it working. But what I want to know is if when you start the process, can the court give you permission to stay in another residence while the process takes place? My mom will pretty much be yelling at me through the whole process if I stay at home and since she is drunk basically 24/7 she will be angrier than normal. I need to be in a good enviroment. I refuse to stay at my dad's. He is neglectful and always has ex-drug addicts over and I am absolutely not comfortable around them, especially the one the he lets stay at his house on weekends. I have been constantly grounded for random reasons for the past 4 months and I have sever depression issues that I have been diagnosed with and being locked in solitary makes it worse so this is the action I must take. So is it possible to stay somewhere else while this process happens?
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Re: Emancipation
Nope, emancipation isn't a process like divorce where some is taken care of in an initial hearing while the rest is worked out over time. Until you actually have a decree of emancipation in your hot little hands, you'll have to live wherever your parents give you permission to live. If they give you their blessing to live elsewhere while your case makes its way through the court, then you're good to go. If mom says "no", then "no" it is. Having a medical diagnosis of severe depression isn't going to aid your case, and may in fact, in and of itself, be grounds for denial (depression requires TREATMENT, and unless you've got excellent health insurance lined up, that's going to be problematic - not to mention that it points to the typical problems with coping skills that goes along with being a teenager).