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  1. #1
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    Oct 2008
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    Unhappy I Feel As Though I'm Suffocating

    *sigh*
    Hello...

    My name is Bella, and I'm in a wee bit of a pinch. I live in Raleigh, North Carolina and i know that the emancipation laws only abide to 16 year olds, and sadly, I'm 14.

    I am having a lot of trouble at home. some of it is my own fault, I will be the first to admit that, but most of it is my mothers. She is a Schizophrenic phsycopathic who is convinced that i am some thing i'm not.

    If i get a C on anything, that's the end of all of Bella's life. Because of her, I have bearly any friends, and completly hate myself. When i was in the 7th grade, she tried to kill herself and blamed it on me. I am the 'bad guy' in her minds eye, and my step-father and i are both sick and tired of being sick and tired of her crap.

    I am not alowed to be myself anymore. I like to where clothes that make people stare at me. I wore a black lace too-too to school and she just about had a cow. I am in the JROTC program at my high school and she wont even be bothered to come see me perform color guard.

    I want to get emancipated because i am tired of being harrased for being myself, and being my mothers emotional punching bag. I just want to live to see the day where I can sigh without gittin introuble for something i never did.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
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    Massachusetts
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    Default Re: I Feel As Though I'm Sufficating

    I'm sorry you're having a bad situation. However, nothing is going to change the fact that under your state's laws, emancipation is not an option for a minimum of two years. The law does not go away just because it's inconvenient for you.

    When you ARE 16, before a judge will emancipate you (which has about a 1 in 10,000 chance of happening - emancipation is VERY rare) you will have to demonstrate to the judge's satisfaction that you have a place to live and that you are capable of paying for rent, utilities, food, clothing, medical care, transportation, school fees and supplies, internet connection, shampoo, shoes, and all the other incidentals of life, alone and unassisted, while still going to school AND keeping your grades up.

    Even if the place to live is with friends who are not charging you rent, you will still need to demonstrate that you will be able to pay all the things listed above if they get tired of having you there and throw you out, or walk collectively under a bus, or get transferred to Europe and can't take you with them.

    You will NOT be emancipated without the above. You may not be emancipated even WITH the above. As indicated, emancipation is rare and granted only in the most extreme of circumstances. The feelings you have about your mother are quite common, are felt by most if not all teens, and do not come even close to being a reason a judge will find compelling.

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