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    Question Can a Pregnant Teenager Get Emancipated to Protect Her Child

    My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Montana.

    I am 16 and pregnant. I have a job, and I can support myself and my child, and the child's father will assist me in raising my child. I do not feel safe raising my child around my biological parents, because I was, and still am, mentally abused and neglected by them. I know that I have an automatic medical emancipation to make health choices for my child, can I extend that in anyway or use that to move myself out of my parent's home legally to protect my child? Assuming I can prove the ability to support myself and my child and stay in school? (which I have already ensured I can do)

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    Default Re: Emancipated Mother to Protect Child

    Please explain how you - and you alone (not your child's father, social services, anyone else) - are able to support BOTH of you while you stay in school and keep good grades.

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    Default Re: Emancipated Mother to Protect Child

    Not to mention the fact that by having a child at 16, you have demonstrated the need for MORE supervision, not less. It is next to impossible to convince a judge that a teenage mother has exercised sufficient good judgement and maturity so as to be eligible for emancipation.

    If you are being physically abused, contact CPS. They *may* if sufficient reason is found, remove you from the home and put you into foster care, or a group home. They will NOT emancipate you.

    If there is no physical abuse, then taking into consideration that what most teens consider "mental abuse" is more along the lines of a parent expressing their disapproval of their teenage child making poor decisions (such as getting pregnant at 16, for example), the likelihood that either CPS or the judge deciding on emancipation will consider that you need to be removed from the home is slim to none. And slim just left town.

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    Default Re: Can a Pregnant Teenager Get Emancipated to Protect Her Child

    I was recently withdrawn from public school and transferred to an online private College Prep because I was not challenged by the curriculum. I will have graduated high school and be ready to enter college, if I so choose, by March of 2011, more than a year early.
    I can, and do work 40 hours a week at high wage, and make more income than either of my parents(one of whom does not work).
    I met all the requirements for emancipation otherwise, but I was forced to withdraw my previous case, before the baby, because my Parents could not support themselves.

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    Default Re: Can a Pregnant Teenager Get Emancipated to Protect Her Child

    None of which changes the answers above. Emancipation is not a right; it is a privilege, and one that is rarely granted.

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    Default Re: Can a Pregnant Teenager Get Emancipated to Protect Her Child

    Seriously. What kind of job do you HAVE (not "can get") that will pay you enough to support yourself 100%, alone, AND go to school with better than average grades, WHILE you are pregnant?

    Honestly, I want to know. There are people out there with college degrees and 30 years of experience who can't get a job.

    So, please share.

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    Default Re: Can a Pregnant Teenager Get Emancipated to Protect Her Child

    I am an administrative assistant for a local business owner. She owns over 13 establishments. I am also his computer consultant for his office and his local establishments. I make over $18/hr for my secretary job and almost 45/Hr for consultant and repair work.

    I am not asking for opinions on myself, I'm asking if it is POSSIBLE, were I to prove I could self support, and could prove that my parents home is not a safe environment for my child for me to legally leave their home. To set up on my own, with or without the father of my child, to raise my child in a safe and healthy environment.

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    The court doesn't care about mental abuse or neglect. ALL teenagers feel they are mentally abused and neglected. So toss that aspect right out the window, as it won't be applicable to your petition for emancipation. If you feel the environment is not PHYSICIALLY safe, then the procedure is to report potential abuse to child protective services, and if the accusations have merit, they will determine where you go (it'll be between other family, foster care, or a state home UNLESS you've already got a DOCUMENTED history of self-support, which you don't). You also need to prove to a court that you are emotionally stable and mature - which getting pregnant at 16 blows right out of the water. Given your academics, and your above average salary and job history with responsibility, you may have had a chance...a chance better than 99% of the people who ask the same question on this board....but the pregnancy is going to be the deal breaker. No judge will emancipate a pregnant 16 year old who already has a roof over her head. It's just not going to happen.

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    Default Re: Can a Pregnant Teenager Get Emancipated to Protect Her Child

    This is not opinion. This is fact.

    The minute you got pregnant, you kissed emancipation goodbye.

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