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    Default Re: Would My Case Be Strong Enough

    Quote Quoting Madelyn845
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    So in order to get emancipated I already have to be out of my house and living on my own and not with someone else?

    My father has custody. My father scares me, why would i report him drinking if I am afraid he will fire me and or do other things to punish me for telling someone the truth. My mom was supposed to go to court Last April but her Attorney says she needs her own place. It is not that I am trying to get away because I do not like his rules, I obey everything. I think a lot of the things he does an says is completely unreasonable. I work 5 days out of a 7 day week, i maintain the grades I need to in school and do everything he asks me with my other siblings and when he asks to buy me things, I pick them up. Anyone will tell you that as well. My father is constantly being verbally abusive. I did tell my mom about it the last time he did threaten me but nothing had came out of it. I told him I didn't appreciate him talking about my business to her and that does not stop him. I found out they talked about me from my other siblings. My mother does know about his drinking problem. I have a student account which means he can take money whenever he wants to out of it so even if I say no he could still take it out, and he has taken all my money before and kept it away from me.
    Please don't think that you can move out and then apply for emancipation - because if you think that you'd be dead wrong. What qwaspolk69 meant is that emancipation is for people who have no parents and as a result of having no parents, are forced to live on their own. This does not apply to you because obviously, you have a parent.

    What do you mean, you are afraid your father will "fire" you?

    It's perfectly legal for your mother and father to talk about your "personal business" anytime they wish. You have no legal means whatsoever to stop them from doing this. The same goes for your father taking your money - you have no legal means whatsoever to stop him from doing this. If the qualifiers for emancipation were parents talking about their kids' business to each other + having access to their kids' bank accounts, all kids in America would be emancipated immediately.

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    Default Re: Would My Case Be Strong Enough

    I was asking since it is being said that in order to qualify you have to be on your own completely I was trying to get clarification on what that meant. My father has threatened to fire me before, so if I were to tell the truth about things he does in the business I have no doubt that he will make my life at home horrible and or try and make me quit my job. My dads girlfriend is not my Mother. There have been many times where he has chose his girlfriend over me and my siblings, I do not think that is right. My father taking my money that I work for to buy beer and stuff for deer camp, but not take me to the doctor, I again think that is wrong. I have asked to go and I have said I will schedule myself, but again my father would not allow me to do that and he would become very angry and lash out.

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    Default Re: Would My Case Be Strong Enough

    In order to qualify for emancipation you need to have already moved out of the house with either the direct or implicit permission of your parent(s), be paying or at least have the means to pay 100% of what it takes to support yourself (that means market-rate rent, utilities, food, clothing, health care, insurance, transportation, staples, school fees and supplies, etc. etc.; it does not mean paying a token to live in someone else's extra bedroom and paying your car insurance), and getting better than average grades.

    Since you have neither moved out nor obtained permission to move out, you fail on eligibility right there.

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    Default Re: Would My Case Be Strong Enough

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    In order to qualify for emancipation you need to have already moved out of the house with either the direct or implicit permission of your parent(s), be paying or at least have the means to pay 100% of what it takes to support yourself (that means market-rate rent, utilities, food, clothing, health care, insurance, transportation, staples, school fees and supplies, etc. etc.; it does not mean paying a token to live in someone else's extra bedroom and paying your car insurance), and getting better than average grades.

    Since you have neither moved out nor obtained permission to move out, you fail on eligibility right there.
    It also does not mean needing getting the $300 a month your mother gives your father for your support.

    It does not matter if you pay for your phone or other things or your father does. If he wants to take them away from you, he can. When will you be 18? You can move out then. You need to find another job when you turn 18 and move out. I don't think working with your father will be a good idea after you move out.

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