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    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Indiana. I am 15 as of 4 months now and I have gone through a lot in the past I live with my grandma we constantly have physical fights she calls the police on me and she has told me she wants me to suffer cause I'm so bad I have no freedom which I do understand isn't a right but I feel as if I should get a little I am blamed for pretty much anything that goes wrong and it's tiring stressful and depressing and being honest I just need away from here I feel it would not only be best for me but my grandma as well because she is stressed constantly and I would be one less thing I have tried to live like she wants me but it feels as if it's impossible. I have a place I can go and someone who will help support me financially till I can get on my feet and get my own job and eventually place so I mean do you feel as if I have a legit reason to be emancipated if so do you think it's likely to happen?

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    If you're being abused, you need to call child services or tell an adult you trust.

    You will not be emancipated.

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    If you're being abused, you need to call child services or tell an adult you trust.

    You will not be emancipated.
    I mean yes it's tender abuse but it's more verbal abuse then physical i would say and I don't want CPS to get involved because I wouldn't be able to see the rest of my family and that would put more stress on my grandma. Is there absolutely no way I could get emancipated?

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    I mean yes it's tender abuse but it's more verbal abuse then physical i would say and I don't want CPS to get involved because I wouldn't be able to see the rest of my family and that would put more stress on my grandma. Is there absolutely no way I could get emancipated?
    Emancipation is for teens who have, through no fault of their own (such as parents died in a plane crash), need to be able to sign a lease or get the power switched on in their name. It is also - occasionally - a means for self-sufficient teens to manage their own affairs (like Macauley Culkin).

    Emancipation also requires that you are able of providing your own support.

    You can read more here: https://www.expertlaw.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=144533

    (Actually, a good sign of maturity would have been to find out yourself what emancipation is, and what is required).

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    Where is your mother and father ? You aren't going to be emancipated. You aren't going to find a job to support yourself. You need to continue with school and graduate.

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    My mom is a truck driver and my Dad is deceased and I plan on continuing school and graduating. Also I did look it up and learn what it is. What I had read is that I just have to show that I will be supported financially and that I will have somewhere to leave and clothes and food not that I had to do it all on my own and I can get a part time job while I'm finishing high school and also I can maintain my grades I have always gotten good grades. Once I finish high school I can get a better paying job work all summer and save up and then get money our of my college fund to start going to a college to pursue my career farther I have it pretty well planned out the thing is my grandma isn't really for it.

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    It's not quite as simple as that. YOU have to be the one supporting yourself - that means that while still going to school and making better than average grades, you personally are earning enough to pay the market rate for rent, utilities, food, clothing, medical care, insurance, transportation, staples, school fees and supplies, and all the other incidentals of life.

    I don't know where in Indiana you're located but I took a look on Craigslist at various points throughout the state, and just to rent a room in someone else's house is still going to run you roughly $400 a month. That's just the room - your share of the utilities can be separate from that and doesn't even begin to count food, clothing, and all the other stuff I listed. At your age the law only allows you to work 18 hours a week maximum. It's considered a rule of thumb that your rent should never be more than 1/4 of your income. Using that rule means that you'd need to be making over $22 an hour. That's just not going to happen - if you're *really* lucky you might be able to find a job making $9 an hour, but minimum wage is more likely. There are grown adults with experience who aren't making $22 an hour.

    Not to mention the fact judges HATE to emancipate minors and if your parent or legal guardian objects, it is simply not going to happen.

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    You will have to be SELF supporting from the word go. Not later when you are out of high school. You can't be emancipated if you are dependent even in part on someone else.

    Why is grandma so stressed? Is there anything you can do around the house to make things a little easier for the both of you, like chores, cooking, etc?

    If she's abusing you, you need to call child services.

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    she has lost two sons and a husband and she blames two of their deaths on me and we haven't physically fought in a while it's more verbal abuse and her making me feel as if I'm nothing at all and I try to help her out around the house all she does is shun me and say she can't trust me she makes me feel worthless and I can't take the depression and feeling as if my family is against me it's too much I tried to get along with her but it's impossible!
    is there anyway I could move out and live with someone else like how would I go about that not like emancipation but like someone else getting custody of me?

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    Not without the express agreement of both your mother and grandmother.

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