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  1. #21
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    Default Re: Do I Have Grounds for Emancipation

    I am asking how to go about supporting myself.
    With a full-time job that pays better than minimum wage.

    How do others support themselves when they're in school 5 days a week, 7 hours a day, and then work alongside that?
    The VAST MAJORITY of teenagers? Don't. Because it's really difficult to tend to your schooling and your job, and do both well on 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night. Sometimes, if you're in a vocational program like my sons are, you can qualify for work-study that gives academic credit if you're working in your field of study, but even then you have to have superior grades in the actual classes you do attend and great time management abilities, or you'll get bounced right out.


    unless they in fact are one of the Miley Cyrus types, or left inheritance.
    BINGO!

    You haven't been reading a thing we've been telling you. You've just been stomping your little foot and yelling "But I WAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!", and not grasping that emancipation is for teenagers who find themselves in EXTRAORDINARY circumstances.

    Your circumstances? Are frightfully common. Nothing extraordinary at all. They suck, but you're not alone in dealing with the suck.

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    Default Re: Do I Have Grounds for Emancipation

    No, I understand everything that is being said. I understand that there is very LITTLE chance of me actually being emancipated, however, if there's a way for me to go about doing so, I will. I understand that I may very well not figure out how to support myself, that there are teenagers in much worse situations than my own, and that emancipation is made for the type that was previously stated. Don't tell me "They don't get emancipated. They just don't." I know several people that are NOT rich and that HAVE both of their parents that were emancipated, though they can not tell me how they went about doing it. I'm not "stomping my little foot." I'm looking for suggestions.

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    Default Re: Do I Have Grounds for Emancipation

    You know several people who were emancipated?

    Really?

    Where would this be?

    Why wouldn't they be able to help you?

  4. #24
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    Default Re: Do I Have Grounds for Emancipation

    In the state of North Carolina, in Wake County. I know 3 people to be exact, and they are rather close to me. Whenever I ask them HOW they got emancipated, and what can I do to imitate them, to end up emancipated like them, they simply refuse to answer my questions.

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    Default Re: Do I Have Grounds for Emancipation

    There's probably a good reason for that.

    Like...they're perhaps not telling the truth? There's no logical reason why they wouldn't explain, surely?

    It's one thing if both parents consent to the minor moving out and being by themselves. But this is not emancipation.

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    Default Re: Do I Have Grounds for Emancipation

    Quote Quoting Dogmatique
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    There's probably a good reason for that.

    Like...they're perhaps not telling the truth? There's no logical reason why they wouldn't explain, surely?

    It's one thing if both parents consent to the minor moving out and being by themselves. But this is not emancipation.
    It's not that they "refuse" to tell me, so much as they ignore me due to the company of others. I'll take what I've learned here, and try to apply it somewhere else, and figure out how to get it done. :/

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    Default Re: Do I Have Grounds for Emancipation

    There would be no reason to ignore you whether there were others present or not, if they were telling the truth.

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    Default Re: Do I Have Grounds for Emancipation

    Quote Quoting cbg
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    There would be no reason to ignore you whether there were others present or not, if they were telling the truth.
    Requoted for emphasis. Your friends are liars.

    You're still not getting it. We've already told you what you need to do. If for some reason that's not enough information, then you've got no business attempting to petition for emancipation. You're not even halfway ready.

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