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    Unhappy Emancipation Seems to Be the Only Way Out - Determining if I Have a Case.

    My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: (parden my spelling, im dyslexic) I live in washington and am trying reallyhard to find the papers to file for emacipation. I cant find any one who can help me. Last year I became very suicidle (tried tokill my self) and a mental institute for help. They learned that I my be bipoler. My dad tryed to send me to another 9 month institue after that, put me on huse arest, locked me in the house, payed my brother to baby sit me (hes 18 months older than me) and did a few more things tht upset me quite a bit so i ran away. (not smart i know... oh and note that i was put on pills and didnt wish to be... im off them now and am fine) i stayed with a family for a month but was then kicked out and sent to live with my mother. My mother mentaly abuses me and my brother. So i left and came back to my dads house, where i am under strict rules and am constently thretened to be kicked out and clamed a run away. there is more to my story but this is all i can fit in. My parent (who are divorced and re-maried) are abusive... not phisicly any more... but mentaly... which hurts worce than phisical. Im in a bad spot because all of my family is disowning me and/or trying to gain control over my every movment and thought. Im just a pupet and a tool to them... they want control and something to make them look good. Im tring to get a job but it just dosnt seem to be working out, none of it dose. i cant wait 2 years till im 18 because every thing gets worce over time... it allways dose with my family. CPS wont help me. What is your advise? any questions just ask.

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    Default Re: In Knowing if I Have a Case. Emancipation Seems to Be the Only Way

    With your history of mental health issues it is pretty much guaranteed that you won't be emancipated.

    Period.

    Please read the "sticky" posts about emancipation. You will learn why you don't qualify.

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    Default Re: In Knowing if I Have a Case. Emancipation Seems to Be the Only Way

    You are not a candidate for emancipation.

    1.) You have a history of emotional illness
    2.) You do not have a job
    3.) You do not have the means of supporting yourself
    4.) You have a history of running away

    Emancipation, in the very, very, very rare cases that it is granted, is ONLY granted to minors who (a) have a NEED* for it; who have a history of and the means to be entirely self-supporting**; and who are judged (by the court) to be of superior maturity for your age.

    You fail on all counts.

    * Need = two general categories; either a successful child actor/athlete who needs to be able to sign a legal contract, or who, through no fault of their own (such as parents dying in a car crash) finds themselves living alone. Need does not equal (don't like parents' rules)

    ** Self-supporting = paying the market rate (not a token to a friend or friend's family) for your own rent, food, clothing, utilities, transportation, insurance, medical care, staples, school fees and supplies, and all the other incidentals of life.

    Emancipation is not and never was intended to be a means for a minor to leave home. It was and is intended to be a means of providing legal protections to a self-sufficient minor who is on their own through no fault of their own.

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