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My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Missouri
If I want to become emancipated ragrding the second option of becomming independent, but my legal guardians (parents in this situation) are preventing me from getting a job and GED/Diploma and living on my own, is there a way a government service can help me meet the minimum requirements for emancipation without my parents consent?
I am 17 if that changes anything, and 8 months from being 18
Being eligible for emancipation means that you are SELF supporting. The absolute BASIC necessity is being employed at a level where you can earn the income to make that happen. No government agency can force your parents to allow you to work. Emancipation is about NEED, not want. If your current rent, food, clothes, utilities, health insurance, etc. is being paid for by someone else, that option is out.
I would add that all your parents are required to do by law is provide you with a place to live, clothes, nutritious food, and get you to school. The clothes need not be designer labels, the food can be liver and Brussels sprouts, and you can be made to share a room with a sibling of the same sex. They don't have to let you take a GED, or have a job, or buy you an Xbox.
The new American way. Another person looking to freeload off the Government teat, a victim of the new nanny state mentality that the US citizen has come to expect. Instead of doing things for yourself, you look for the government program, making the Government your surrogate parent.Quote:
is there a way a government service can help me meet the minimum requirements for emancipation without my parents consent?