Can Your Parents Stop You From Meeting With a Lawyer or Getting Emancipated

[AlyssaRose213]

My name is Alyssa and I live in Michigan. I am fifteen and turning sixteen in a few months. I plan on getting emancipated after I get a job to meet the criteria for emancipation. I have a school councilor lined up as a witnesses to say that I am responsible enough to be emancipated.

I will have no issue with getting the petition but what I want to know is once the petition is signed and my parents receive the information of me getting emancipated can my father legally stop me from getting emancipated or stop me from meeting my lawyer?

[Dogmatique]

How do you intend to convince a court that you're capable of fully supporting yourself?

[jk]

http://www.michiganlegalaid.org/libr...07.2109843506/

What does the Judge or referee have to decide at the hearing?

At the hearing the probate judge must order the minor emancipated if the judge determines that to be in the best interest of the minor. For the judge to make this determination the minor must be able to show that:

• Parents or guardian do not object or if they do object they are not providing support to the minor.
• The minor is at least 16 years old.
• The minor is a resident of Michigan and that particular county.
• The minor can manage his/her own finances and has either employment or means of support other than Public Assistance such as Food Stamps, TANF, State Disability.
• The minor has the ability to handle personal and social affairs (including proof of housing).
• The minor understands his/her rights and responsibilities under this law. (The minor must read the emancipation law and understand it.)
  
  It is up to the minor to convince the judge that all of these requirements are met. This is done through sworn testimony from the minor and any other persons the minor wants to have in the courtroom to testify about these areas.

[Mercy&Grace]

You have to have your mother and fathers permission. They aren't just informed. What kind of job do you have that you earn enough money while you're still going to school to completely support yourself and pay for an attorney at 16 ?

[jk]

I will have no issue with getting the petition but what I want to know is once the petition is signed and my parents receive the information of me getting emancipated can my father legally stop me from getting emancipated or stop me from meeting my lawyer?

the notice is not that you are going to be or already are emancipated. It is that you have filed to seek emancipation. There is nothing sure about you being emancipated and given the description of your situation, it is not likely to be granted.

[flyingron]

You misunderstand the purpose of emancipation. Despite what you learned from your social studies class, emancipation isn't the procedure to escape involuntary parental enslavement, but recognition that an independent child needs relief from certain rules (entering into contracts for things like leases) that would be denied him otherwise.

[cbg]

And, btw, the answer to your subject heading question is yes. Your parents can stop you from meeting with a lawyer or getting emancipated.

[AlyssaRose213]

That isn't what I asked. I know the steps I have to go through to get emancipated quite well and talked to a few people who are in the process or are going to be going to be in the process soon.

What I asked is of my parent can prevent me from getting a lawyer and going to court to get emancipated.

If you are not going to answer my question and be helpful to me please refrain yourself from replying to my thread.

Thank you.

I work on houses in my free time and get 15% of the profit when the houses are sold off or rented out every month. I have been doing this for two years and as soon as I turn sixteen I will be getting another job elsewhere as well as helping when I can even if it means a lower percentage.

Also that wasn't the question I asked.

Don't tell me your opinion when you don't know me well enough to do so. Also you did not answer the question I asked.

Please do not reply to my treads again.

Thank you.

[Dogmatique]

Please do not reply to my treads again.

Thank you.

Consider our opinions an added bonus.

You're clearly nowhere near mature enough to be on your own.

Have a fantabulous weekend.

(Btw, I doubt anyone here has found a reason to address your treads or any other footprint you might leave behind)

[jk]

Oh so you are working illegally and whomever is employing you is subject to fines for employing a minor in a construction industry. I don't suppose you have your work permit, or do you? Of course you are not working more than legally allowed either, right?

so you are going to tell a judge you are supporting yourself through unlawful activities and that is why you should be emancipated?