Can You Get Emancipated After You Get a GED

[Brooke321]

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Kentucky
I am planning on attempting to get emancipated once I obtain my GED. I am planning on getting a lawyer and proving that I am better off living with my boyfriend than with my mom, while me and him both obtain our primaries in college. I am on the verge of turning 16 and he is 19. I figure after I get my GED, it will be some proof to the court that I can obtain a job and live on my own with my boyfriend. My mom does not approve of my boyfriend and I am scared she will use me being on medication for anxiety and depression. Even though I am doing very much better and on the verge of no longer needing the meds. I needed them in the past and once self checked into a hospital for troubled teens. Which helped me learn coping skills for triggers. Even though I am doing better handling myself, my mom is not helping me. I decided to try and get emancipated so I can make decisions for myself without needing my parents permission, such as moving out. My mom is not mentally stable to take care of me and does not take medicine she is supposed to. She sometimes has outbursts of screaming at me, and tackles me and holds me down so I cannot move. In the past my older brother and step dad have also done these things but worse, like holding my arms behind my back & screaming at me, grabbing me by my shoulders and jerking me around leaving red mark, scratches, and bruises on me, also actually hitting me from time to time, and there have been no repercussions of it. Since I fight back in self defense, my family claims I start the fights. My mom gets up in my face, she has spit in my face before, she has whipped me with a belt (not a spanking an actual whip) because a cop told her to, and many other things that have caused me psychological damage and is the main reason I have to take medicine and go to therapy. I have tried to overcome these things because it is important for me too. I have tried to tell cops in the past of this happening but since I am "a kid", and well usually they take the parents side of the story, nothing has ever been done about these events. So I try to ignore them, but they still continue to bother me. Although I have no proof of this, I do have have my therapist who I have told this too. But since they do not always does not hit me, nothing can really be done. I feel that if I do not move out that it will only harm me in the long run, it may only be 2 years but my fear is that in those 2 years that my mom and family will only get worse. It is not that I do not agree with her rules, even though there are some I do not. It is that living with her is not helping me emotionally. I also want to go ahead and start my life, by going to college and starting my own business. I feel that she will use her not liking my boyfriend (therefor I am scared she will make up lies to convince the judge to not let me leave like she has in the past in similar situations) and me being on medicine and once going to a hospital for treatment, as an excuse. Since she is very convincing, she will most likely, win the case. I am just wondering, can I get emancipated and if not very likely, what can I do to help my case? I am planning on getting a good lawyer and saving up money, getting a job, and hopefully getting my GED will help that. My boyfriend is also going to help me with all of this.

[Mercy&Grace]

You can't do it. You have to prove that you can support yourself, which you can't. And you have no legimate reason to be Emancipated. I doubt if an attorney will even talk to you.

[aardvarc]

Until you HAVE that job, and HAVE that GED, no judge is even going to consider your case. And the moment you say the word boyfriend, even having a job and a GED won't matter.

Your past history of anxiety and depression and history of hospitalization alone is enough to the court to shoot you down.

You have ZERO chance of emancipation. ZERO.