It's in My Best Interest to Get Emancipated

[shanon]

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of:New Jersey

I'm 15, will turn 16 this Summer and I'm trying to do a program at my school that allows me to graduate a year earlier, which means I'd graduate next year and be going on 17. This isn't anywhere NEAR final because I still have to discuss my plans with my guidance counselor and determine the discrepancies in how colleges would look at me if I graduate early as opposed to if I graduated when I was meant to.

But, anywho, in the case that i DO graduate early, I'd like to be emancipated. I hate my home life and always have. My father has been an alcoholic all my life-sometimes he hits me but not hard enough to leave marks or anything (and that's not what I'm arguing-just a point I'd like to add) but he continually emotionally abuses me and he has for quite awhile...he's never going to change. On top of it, he spends most of his time at the bar drinking our family's money and we barely have enough to get by. One time we had no electricity for a week. We got evicted from our last house in August and had to move from motel to motel and friend's house to friend's house for over a month and we moved into a ratty old apartment and we still have no cable and no beds and no tables and no couches or chairs or anything. Also, my father is a racist and I have a black boyfriend(i'm white, by the way), who he hasn't said any racial slurs TO him but he's said them ABOUT him. And my mother is an immigrant from France, who works an underpaying, under the table job-NOT enough to support us, WHATSOEVER.
Anyway, when I start working at Six Flags I'm going to save my money up and by the time I graduate, I'll have a full-time job-maybe two so I'd be able to support myself, and me and my boyfriend would rent a cheap apartment.
I think I could get my parents to agree to it, as well...or at least my mother
Do you think I'd have a case to get emancipated?
I know this was long but I appreciate those that took the time to read it all. PLEASE help me...

[shanon]

i want to at least be able to move out of the house...if I can do that without getting emancipated I might be able to settle

[divemedic]

No. Millions of teens decide that their lives are hell because they cannot be with their soul mate, and that they belong together- but trying to convince a court of that is not going to happen. You have not described one thing which will get you emancipated. (BTW- your parents are not required to provide their children with Cable television, even though I think many kids feel like they should be)

[LawResearcherMissy]

Do you think I'd have a case to get emancipated?

No.

"Both of my parents died in a car accident and I need to be emancipated so I can take over the mortgage, keep the lights on, and get at my bank accounts." is grounds for emancipation.

"I hate my life, and I don't have cable!" is not.

And the State of New Jersey has no statutory provisions for emancipation anyway.

[cbg]

Based on what you have posted, no, you do not have a case for emancipation. By the time you got that job and saved up the amount of money you'd really need, as opposed to what you think now you'd need, you'll be long past 18 anyway.

And that's if your state would emancipate a teen anyway, which they will not.

[shanon]

for the record-i never made a claim, stating that not having cable television is abuse (however, i HAVE been extremely emotionally abused-which IS abuse) nor that it is required to be given to me, it was just an extra detail
i also never said i wanted to get emancipated to move in with my boyfriend because that's false-i WILL move in with him but that's not my reason for wanting to be emancipated

but thanks for all the feedback and since it's impossible for me to get emancipated, i'm just going to move out and have my parents co-sign for me to move into a new apartment

[seniorjudge]

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but thanks for all the feedback and since it's impossible for me to get emancipated, i'm just going to move out and have my parents co-sign for me to move into a new apartment

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When you have a full-time job and support yourself 100%, THEN you will be emancipated.

(Hint: Things only get worse. Be prepared.)

[shanon]

When you have a full-time job and support yourself 100%, THEN you will be emancipated.

(Hint: Things only get worse. Be prepared.)

i know and i plan to prepare myself

[cbg]

Be aware that even with your parent's co-signature, assuming that you can talk them into it, no landlord is required to rent to you, and if they want to refuse to rent to a teenager they most certainly can do so.

In other words, it's not going to be as simple as you seem to think.

[shanon]

I already know this.
Nowhere on any of my posts did I say that this was going to be at all simple so don't tell me what i "think".
And most landlords are willing to (trust me, I already checked)