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  1. #1
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    Question Emancipation For My 16 Year Old Daughter

    My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Louisiana

    Good Morning, I have read the thread that you wanted me to look at first before posting. I will try my hardest to sum this up for you in a short paragragh. My 16 year old daughter and I cannot be much around each other anymore. When we are around each other we get into fights that sometimes results into physical fights. I feel like I am walking on edge with her. She tells me that she wants out of the house because she feels like the family doesn't want her around which sometimes her statement is very true. I shouldn't feel like I am on edge with my daughter. When she was away off at this program in a different city we have never been better. We talked a lot and we didn't get into much fights which to me was like heaven. I will say though when she came home to visit it didn't take long for is to get into a fight. I feel like we only dont get into fights if we aren't living with each other and thats when I thought about her getting emancipated.

    I did reserch on it but I still dont really understand it all. I have asked her about this and she thought it was a great idea. I understand that she has to be able to live on her own which I know when she sets her mind to something she can do it. She has a job right now and is doing great in it. Right now thought she isn't in school since when she was at the program I was talking about she got into a verbal fight with another student and they have zero tolence for any kind of fighting so they pulled her out of the program. She is planning on going back to high school but she doesn't know where yet so she might just go ahead and get her GED.

    I really need ya'lls help because I just dont know what to do anymore. Does she even have a chance of getting out of the house if we have a set plan on where she is going to live and I understand she has to prove that she is able to live on her own. Is this even right for her? I feel like it is but of course I am not an expert in this field so I do not know. If you can help me that would be great. Thank you for taking your time and reading this.

    -BLormand

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    Default Re: For My 16 Year Old Daughter

    Where is her mother? Could she live with a relative for a while? Having said that, you're the adult and you should be able to stay out of physical fights with the 16 year-old girl.

    What Program? Have you spoken with them about the possibility of her getting back into it?

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    Default Re: For My 16 Year Old Daughter

    Emancipation is not granted because a parent and child do not get along. Not even if they get into physical fights. That may be enough to put her into another program or foster care - it will NOT get her emancipated. In fact, it will work against her since emancipation requires superior maturity for her age.

    The fact that she was dismissed from "the program" for any kind of fighting may well be enough to disqualify her for emancipation, EVEN IF she were able to meet the other requirements. The fact that she is not in school means that she is not meeting the other requirements.

    Plus, unless she can, while finishing her education with better than average results, earn enough ALL BY HERSELF (that means without help from you or any other friend, relative or source) to pay all her own rent, food, clothes, utilities, medical care, transportation, insurance, school fees and supplies, and all the other incidentals of life, you are both wasting your time even thinking about it.

    Finally, emancipation is granted on the basis of NEED, not want. A valid reason for emancipation is, "My parents were killed in a car crash and I need emancipation so that I can pay the rent and the light bill and support my younger siblings". A valid reason for emancipation is NOT, "My mother and I are both too immature to keep from fighting so I want to live somewhere else so we won't have to grow up enough to try".

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    Default Re: For My 16 Year Old Daughter

    My mother and I are both too immature to keep from fighting so I want to live somewhere else so we won't have to grow up enough to try".

    Look here, you do not have to be so rude as in saying that. I have put up enough crap with her and I am getting tired. I shouldn't have to walk on egg shells around my daughter like that. I am going to work with a lawyer and see what he has to say about my daughter getting emancipated.

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    Default Re: Emancipation For My 16 Year Old Daughter

    Go right ahead. He'll tell you the same thing. Your daughter does not meet the requirements for emancipation.

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