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    Default Reasons for Emancipation

    My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Indiana. I am 16 years old. I have researched quite a lot about emancipation laws in my state but I still have a few questions. At this point, emancipation is a last resort. I understand that most of you reading this post will think that I'm like all other teenagers wanting to get emancipated for stupid reasons regarding my freedom. This is not the case. I love my parents. They have done everything possible for me since I was born. Recently, my mother's anger has been getting out of hand and she's been...violent with me...and I'm scared. This fear of mine has escalated to a point where I just can't go home anymore. I am genuinely scared to go home after school and find her angry at me for reasons I don't know until a week later. I flinch every time she raises her arm...My fear has gotten to a point where I am stressed about everything. I can't even eat anymore...I'm worried to fall asleep...I understand that I do strange things that annoy her sometimes and I understand that I am a bad kid but she didn't even let me explain myself because I wasn't crying like my sister. If I cry, then she'll listen to me. I don't know what to do...Please help? My questions are:
    1) Could fear be a reason for emancipation?
    2) Could I get a full-time job and stay with my boyfriend's parents until I am able to get my own apartment? I am ready to support myself if I can get away.
    3) How long would it take?
    4) Would I be staying with her through the process?
    5) How would I go about getting emancipated? Will I need a lawyer?

    Thank you for reading this and responding, if you do. It means a lot. I just don't know what to do anymore.

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    Default Re: Reasons for Emancipation

    If you would read the stickies at the top of this forum, you will see that you are not eligible for emancipation.

    1. No, but if you are being physically abused, you tell someone. Your pastor, school counselor, doctor, or contact CFS yourself.
    2. That wouldn't do it. You would have to show that you can arealready supporting yourself, 100%. That means a job and money to rent your own apartment, pay your own utilities, phone, food and staples, insurance, transportation, etc. Living with another family does not do that. Oh, and continuing to attend school regularly and getting above average grades.

    Based on #2, your questions #4-5 are irrelevant.

    I also suggest you speak with your pastor or counselor about how YOU handle your mother and how YOU respond to her and within yourself.

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    What you and far too many other teens don't realize is that emancipation is not and never was intended to be a means for a minor to leave home. It was and is intended as a means to provide legal protections to those teens who are already living on their own.

    So emancipation is NEVER granted on the basis of what reason you have. It is necessary to show that you are already fully self supporting (which means NOT living with someone else's family) before emancipation would ever be looked at.

    Or, to put it another way, no reason is good enough if you are not capable of paying 100% of your own support, incluing market rate for rent and all the things Patty listed above.

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    Bottom line is that there is NO reason that is enough for a court to order emancipation if the subject seeking that emancipation can't prove that they are ALREADY capable of FULL self support AND have a documented history of doing so - along WITH: above average grades, NO criminal activity, NO school problems, NO mental health problems, NO curfew or truancy problems, NO alcohol or substance abuse problems, NO history of self-injury, suicidal thoughts or jestures, etc. You would be asking the court to declare that you are able to function as an adult on many levels, and one thing that responsible adults are expected to do is to appropriately report issues like child abuse. If there is physical abuse occurring, it needs to be reported as soon as it occurs if you want it to be taken seriously. If you don't know exactly who to call, use 911 and they will get help to you in the immediate crisis and then can get you in contact with the appropriate resources in your community. You just cannot expect the courts to believe that you're capable of looking out for yourself and knowing what to do about the various crisises you'll encounter out in the adult world, if you can't look after yourself and know what to do about the crisis in your current world (calling authorities when abuse occurs).

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    Thank you for your advice and I know that I should do that, but I am worried that if I take it to someone, they will just point a finger in blame at me and let my mother go on doing what she is doing.

    Thank you for replying.

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