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    Default How Much Support Can a Minor Get from Others and Still Qualify for Emancipation

    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Georgia

    I love my parents, but I would love to be emancipated from them in order to start living on my own. My parents would quite possibly be okay with the emancipation as long as I gave good reasons (like financial aid which my brother cannot get because he isn't considered self-sufficient despite being over 18 and living on his own).

    I will be staying in school and even doing the move on when ready program (dual enrollment) full-time in my junior and senior year of high school (after sophomore year is when I would move out). I would stay with roommates (could I legally stay with my brother if I paid rent? He lives in an apartment with his girlfriend) and pay my part of the rent.

    My main issue is how much insurance costs. Is there any way for me to be emancipated but stay under my father's insurance with his consent? Also are there any options for insurance that I could get for being an emancipated minor if I couldn't?

    Also is it possible to not move out until after I am emancipated? I am unable to sign any leases for apartments until I am, so I don't understand why that is one of the requirements, really.

    Thank you!

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    Default Re: How Much Support Can a Minor Get from Others and Still Qualify for Emancipation

    Read this. You will not get emancipated based upon a claim that you can theoretically support yourself, or that you can theoretically find housing. You need to demonstrate a history of self-support and that you already have appropriate housing. If you cannot independently support yourself, a court can certainly consider that you would be unable to support yourself if you are staying with somebody who might later kick you out.

    Your father can explore with his insurance company, whether or not they will continue coverage for an emancipated minor and at what cost.

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    Default Re: How Much Support Can a Minor Get from Others and Still Qualify for Emancipation

    Thank you!

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    Default Re: How Much Support Can a Minor Get from Others and Still Qualify for Emancipation

    I can answer the health insurance question, assuming that your father carries his health insurance through his employer. If that is the case, then he MUST be allowed to continue your coverage until the age of 26, regardless of whether you are emancipated, unemancipated, living at home, not living at home, single, married, his tax dependent, not his tax dependent, or any other variation you can think of.

    However, the state of Georgia, approximately ten years or so ago, went out of its way to it more difficult for a minor to meet the requirements for emancipation. The odds that you will be granted emancipation based on anything but legal need (I'm talking about "my parents were killed in a car crash and I need the legal right to sign contracts and have the light bill transferred into my name and pay the rent") are exceedingly slim, if not non-existent.

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