Help With Emancipation In Colorado

[kaateeliin]

I live in colorado, I'll be sixteen on the second of April and am considering emancipation.

My mother and her boyfriend aren't fit for me to live with them.

But is this good evidence to get emancipated?:
My mom's done jailtime for a DUI

My mom smokes weed regularly, and has done coke many times, but hasn't in almost a year.
Her boyfriend smokes weed, as well... and you can often times find their pipes laying around the house.

I have audio records of her boyfriend pulling a chair out from under me, and calling me abusive names.

My mom spends my child support on her car payments and bills, and none of it goes toward me.

She's been unemployed since the summer.

Her boyfriend is very abusive mentally and she's mentioned that he's hit her a few times.

She's also mentally abusive. And sometimes physically. For instance, today she had me behind a door and was pushing on the door so I was stuck to behind the wall and pushed up against my shoe rack, and I now have 2 developing bruises along my knees.

I get decent grades and my GPA is a 3.1

I don't have a job, but my grandparents would like me to live with them... as they've wanted that my whole life after my dad left and it was obvious my mom couldn't take good care of me.

I'm not sure if emancipation would be my best bet, but I just don't want my mom to be my legal guardian...

Either way, what are the odds of me being emancipated if I claimed my grandparents house as the residence I'd like to have?

Orr.. would it be best to somehow make my grandparents my legal guardians? and if do, how would I go about that? Also, my grandparents have been evicted twice from their house.. once before I was born in 1989 and again in 2003. They both now have steady jobs and a nice house, but what kind of affect would that have on a judge's opinion of making my grandparents my legal guardians?

[LawResearcherMissy]

You aren't a candidate for emancipation. Emancipation is about finding yourself in extraordinary circumstances, supporting yourself 100%, not living with family, holding down a full time job and taking care of ALL of your own needs.

Short of you being REALLY abused - and while your mother's boyfriend sounds like a complete tool, his toolery isn't considered serious abuse - your grandparents don't stand a chance of gaining guardianship unless your mother is willing to cooperate.

I tell you this from hard experience. My own grandparents tried for years to get custody of me. It took a skull fracture and brain surgery for the judge to finally see it their way.

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I wish you luck and strength.

[kaateeliin]

oh bleh.. there's nothing I can do to get out of this...?

[Happy Trails]

oh bleh.. there's nothing I can do to get out of this...?

Talk with your school guidance counselor.

I do agree with LRM, you are not a candidate for emancipation.

[panther10758]

You probably have options your not even aware of. I agree with Happy Trails. Talk to your school coounselor and discuss what options you do have. The problem is that all teens think their parents are fools (or worse) and most think they can do a better job caring for themselves (some are right most are not). However that is not what emancipation is about as pointed out earlier.