My question involves guardianship in the State of: Texas
I'm 17, and i have a job, and i'm soon to be a manager of this job after only a month and a half of working here, which greatly shows my maturity and responsibility, once i finish my paper work. Living in hud housing i can live on my own very close to work (within walking distance) and im wanting to be emancipated. Or a cheap apartment will do fine.
There's issues going on at home and serious uncomfortably and stress. I'm incredibly unhappy here and i need to get away from it.
I've lived away from my parents before for 6 months while i was away with my brothers working a full time job while going to school, and everyone i know could EASILY tell i was much happier, i was rarely ever angry. At my old job everyone thought i was 23 before i told them how old i was and i worked there for a good month (only quit because the manager didn't like me so he was basically harassing me and calling me out in front of customers if i made a tiny mistake) I basically pay for all my things and my parents don't pay for my medical bills. And i don't buy groceries cause my parents get them and i'm trying to save up, but if i was living on my own i wouldn't mind buying it myself, i know how to ration food. Right now i have a tooth that needs fixed and my dad wont pay it, his excuse is that he needs his fixed when he's 52 and his are ruined from not ever brushing his teeth and he honestly doesn't plan on fixing them, he just wants a newer car.
I payed a phone bill of my own, and bought my own phone, for several months. I'm only on my parents now because my old phone cracked from the ice and if i sent it in for warranty it would have taken 2 weeks and i needed a phone for work.
I've bought the only things i have for entertainment and i've always been very independant, at school i always got compliments from teachers and counselors that i was ambitious and incredibly smart and mature.
I feel like i could get emancipated easily but i'm not fully aware of all the laws and processes for this state because for the last 16 years i lived in georgia.
I want to know what rights i will be getting besides the obvious, and a few hoops i'll have to jump through to get it done.
I honestly want to live on my own, not just to get away from myself, but i feel ready to be an adult. I only have a year to go but that year can change a lot. I normally wouldn't mind waiting but with everything that's been going on i know that i need to get away from here or i will have a mental break down. (i've had a few series of stress issues and panic attacks when i was younger, when i moved out and lived with my brothers they got better, and going to work means getting away from my parents so that also helps)
I just really feel like it's what i need.
I know i can do it, and i know it means cutting off any expectations from them, and it might even make my relationship with them, or my family as a whole towards me, worse, but honestly, i'd rather be happy, and my family doesn't have tight lines anyways, i'm disappointed in how all my siblings have turned out and my parents just aren't suitable to be around anymore.
So bottom line, i need someone to lay out the laws and procedures of emancipation in texas.
I know people are probably going to say "you should just stay with them it'll be too hard" but i'm pretty sure i'm capable, and i've wanted emancipation for years.

