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    Default Can You Get Emancipated with a History of Sucicide Attempts, Running Away

    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Washington State

    For the past 5 years, my mother has had an alcohol problem, which affects the life of both my sister and I. During the day, she is a typically mother, but at night, she is emotionally, verbally, and sometimes physically abusive. She will tells us that we make her life miserable, that she hopes we die, and that nobody will ever love us. When she gets abusive, she will kick us, grab us by the hair and drag us, and hit us, but when we use self defense to get her off, she goes and tells people that we were hitting her. She is also a very good liar, as we've had CPS at our house and multiple police but nobody believes us because we are considered upper class so they just think we are spoiled brats. She even once tried to choke me, and when I told the cop, he said I probably did something to deserve it. My dad lives an hour away and he is no help at all. He tells us to ignore her, to which she starts pushing us around and hitting us until we answer, and he refuses to let us move in with him. I've talked to school counselors, teachers, therapists, police, doctors, CPS, you name it, but nobody seems to care, and every attempt to put her in rehab has failed, so I have no other choices. Now that you all know the background information, here's the main question...

    To be completely clear, I don't have a legal record, but I have a history of suicide attempts, running away, and property damage, all leading back to her, where nobody bothered to ask me what was going on, they just automatically believed the adult. That would be the main reason that I could think of that could get me denied emancipation, but that was 4-5 years ago. Since all of that, I have turned my life around. I'm 17 years old, I have a 3.7 GPA, a job, and I haven't gotten into any sorts of trouble... but the situation at home gets worse and worse every night. If emancipated, I have enough money to buy my own car under my name that I could live in for my senior year, and I have the grades for a scholarship to college. With those two combined plus the money I make from my job, would I have a good chance of emancipation? Or do I need to try and tough it out for another year?

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    Default Re: Do I Qualify

    Even if you otherwise qualified, which you do not, your history of suicide attempts and running away would mean that an emancipation petition would immediately be denied.

    We do not emancipate abused children. There is NO home situation that is bad enough to qualify a teen for emancipation. Emancipation is reserved for those who are already living outside the home, managing their own financial affairs (that means, paying all your own rent, utilities, food, clothing, transportation, insurance, medical care, school fees and supplies, staples, and all the other incidentals of life, alone and unassisted) and who need the legal protection of emancipation so that they can keep the light bill paid and negotiate their rent.

    If CPS does not see the situation as bad enough to remove you from the home and your dad is not willing to take any action, then you're going to have to tough it out. All I can suggest is that you call CPS and the police every time there is physical abuse.

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