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    Default Can a Child Get Emancipated to Live With the Non-Custodial Parent

    I am 16 years old and live in Oklahoma , my mom lives in Arkansas. I've wanted to live with my mom for a very long time now but my parents refuse to let me. I'm almost 17 years old and want to get emancipated to go live with her. I feel like I have no other choice. My parents put me down and make me depressed. Do I have to be livin apart from my dad and step mom to be emancipated?

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    Default Re: Can a Child Get Emancipated to Live With the Non-Custodial Parent

    You cannot get emancipated from only one parent. You can only get emancipated from both parents.

    Further, Oklahoma's emancipation law is extremely limited and relates to your right to enter into binding contracts, not to live independently.

    If you want to live with mom, you'll have to either get dad to agree to that move, or you'll have to convince mom to petition the court for change of custody (and hope that she prevails).
    Quote Quoting Oklahoma Statutes, Sec. 10-91. Authority of district courts.
    The district courts shall have authority to confer upon minors the rights of majority concerning contracts, and to authorize and empower any person, under the age of eighteen (18) years, to transact business in general, or any business specified, with the same effect as if such act or thing were done by a person above that age; and every act done by a person so authorized shall have the same force and effect in law as if done by persons at the age of majority.

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