Emancipation by Marriage in Idaho
My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Idaho
I am 16 years old, almost 17, and I want to know if it would really work if I got married in order to be emancipated. I know that in order to get married in Idaho when under 18 I need one of my parents there as well as their signature; that's fine because my mom can do that (I want the emancipation only because of my dad, who I live with most of the time. There's no other way of escaping from him, because we'd have to go through court and a ton of stuff which we have no money for, plus it would take a long time).
So if I take my mom and a boy and one of his parents and a witness and my birth certificate and I get married, then I'm free, right?
Re: Emancipation by Marriage in Idaho
Very few people consider being married as free...
And there will be questions around why your custodial parent isn't there.
Re: Emancipation by Marriage in Idaho
That is about the worst idea I have ever heard. And I've heard some bad ones.
Marriage is for LIFE, kiddo. Even if you divorce later, the repercussions NEVER go away. You have less than two years, tops, before you can tell your dad to **** off and walk out the door, maybe less depending on how close to 17 you are. You can leave without permission on your 18th birthday and no one can stop you. If the situation isn't bad enough for your mother to apply for custody for you, it's not bad enough a life changing event like marriage. Believe me, you'll be a lot long extricating yourself from a bad marriage than you will be waiting for a change of custody - or even for your majority.
And if you don't have the money to request a change of custody order, who, pray tell, do you expect to support you and "a boy" after you're married? The taxpayers aren't going to be willing to do it.