Help With Emancipating in California

[ivan 0001]

ivan

hi my name is ivan and i am trying to find out how i can get emancipated? My life has been a living hell from my parents getting divorced to both of my parents telling me they dont want me around. I am living with my aunt and uncle and they are really stressed out they dont have that great of an income and lately we have been so poor we moveed in with my grand parents. so there is about 7 people living in a little house and there isnt much room or care it feels like. family members go by

grandma 55
grandpa 56
aunt 28
uncle 27
me 15
mikey 3
devon 1

i just dont feel right living in the household from lack of room and it feels like i am not welcome. i have been in and out of foster homes and other stuff i have had an alcholic and abusive dad and my mom was never around.

we were wondering if we both got emancipated if it would help us to live together because we are best friends and pretty much in same situation.

please write back on what you think.......

here is cj's story


cj

Hi, im cj (real name is carl). I am 16, and a little more than a year ago my mom died, and i have been living with my dad. he has a real problem with alchohol and drinks every night, usually consuming 10 to 14 beers ontop of pepermint scnaps. we have the house that my mom had, and have been going thru hard time because she was a heavy spender and are in serious debt, to the point of loosing the house because of a 2nd mortgage that had an extremely high intrest rate, and my dad makes just under 2,400 a month and pays the bills and spends the rest on beer and liquor. i have had the same shoes/clothes, etc...for about a year now, my grades have been slipping, every night he gets drunk and yells at me and threatens to take my stuff that i payed for, which the only things that i truly own are my shoes, one pair of pants and my computer. he wont ever let me see my freinds, or ever do anything, so im always stuck at home, so basicaly i have few freinds. we have completely detached from most of the family, the only ones we ever really have contact with are my grandparents on my dads side, which dont even know what is going on. it got its worst last night tho. for the past week its been getting real bad to the point of me nearly walking out, he thinks that all my freinds and me included are drug addicts, and last night was the worst.

**this is both of our stories i spent the night at ivans(first guy that said stuff) house.
At midnight he called saying that he went thru my room and that there were stuff missing, and called every 20 minutes or so starting from midnight to 1:30, and every one was sleeping and had to go to work. he came down at about 130 shitfaced drunk, about as bad as he couldnt even stand up telling me to get into the car, i and everybody who was out there(me ivan, and his grandma) said that it would be best for me to stay there because he was so drunk he couldnt even read the address on the mailbox, and the letters were 6in tall, there was lights on it, and he was two feet away. started yelling at me and ivan, saying that we were good for nothing, started disrespecting their whole family because ivan is a punk.......well back to the story, he went to get me in the car, he had every door open, all 5 of them (2001 ford explorer). lights on and country music full blaring at 130 in the morning. we was screaming at me and ivan saying we were stoned. we showed him our eyes and he still didnt beleive him, so i told him to f**k off and he should take a drug test and get caught by a cop for driving drunk. he got pissed off and yelled that he was gonna call the cops on us, and peeled out in his driveway getting me, ivan and his grandma covered in dirt, yelling "im calling the cops you good for nothing stoners & tweekers".

more to come...i got about 2 hours of sleep last night, well it should progress further tonight, he just called saying that he is coming home early, so it might get really bad to the point of me running away and sleeping on the streets tonight.

[Mr. Knowitall]

According to the California Courts, there are 3 ways to get emancipated:

1. Get married. You need permission from your parents and the court.

2. Join the armed forces. You need permission from your parents, and the armed forces must accept you.

3. Get a declaration of emancipation from a judge. To get a declaration of emancipation, you have to prove ALL of these things:

• You are at least 14 years old.
• You don't want to live with your parents. Your parents don't mind if you move out.
• You can handle your own money.
• You have a legal way to make money.
• Emancipation would be good for you.