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  1. #1
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    Default Pregnant, 17, and parents want no contact - emancipation

    I have read up on emancipation in my state of Texas countless times, so I am wondering if you can help me...

    Several months ago I was physically abused by my step-father while my mother watched and my 6 year old brother tried to protect me. I had very noticable massive bruises in the form of hand prints on my arms for weeks. Thevery next day of the incedent I moved out.
    My mother has taken away my rights to see my brother whom I raised, she has told my biological father such terrible lies that he no longer wants to speak with me when not once, out of 17 years did we ever fight. My sisters have been informed not to speak with me if they want to see our brother. CPS has a report not only from myself but from my manager and co-worker.
    I have been living on my own for 5 months and am now 2 months pregnant. (I know not the smartest thing.) I live with my Fiance and his family. I am being solely supported by my Fiance. He will be 18 in a month or so but h makes about $24,000+ a year. He is currently putting me through school so that I may become a Medical Assistant.

    Money, is not a problem right now.

    My parents want absolutely no contact with me. So I have had to go through great lengths and several phone calls to various people so that I may get medical, dental, even eye glasses. Those which I wold have had to get a parental consent for. A parental consent which my parents refused, outright to sign. I have put myself on my own insurance so they ould not have to pay for it.
    Everyone has told me that I need to become emancipated....By the time it goes through I will be 18 years old and would have wasted several hundred dollars which could have been better spent of bills.
    How can I get around all of my other obsyicals when it comes to the "parental consent" forms when I am 100% non-supported by my parents and they want no contact with me?

    One other thing.... I was denied, yes, denied the right to have an education from the age of 10 -15 which is when I got my GED. That too was a struggle and I did it without my parents support, with their threats of taking it away. Yet, any entry or exit exams I have taken with/without any schooling other than on my own, I have scored above average, including college entry exams.


    I can do this on my own, that is not the problem, being allowed to do it legally is another story....

    Also, is there any laws in texas or anything that you can find that will allow me to get married without "parental consent"? such as going through a judge, court order, and such.

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    In case you were wondering, I will be 18 July 25th.

    Thanks,
    Britany.

    PS.
    Sorry for the spelling errors.

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    Default Texas Marriage Law

    If you're wondering about marriage, Texas law provides,
    Quote Quoting Texas Family Code - Marriage Law
    § 2.003. APPLICATION FOR LICENSE BY MINOR. In addition to the other requirements provided by this chapter, a person under 18 years of age applying for a license must provide to the county
    clerk:
    • (1) documents establishing, as provided by Section 2.102, parental consent for the person to the marriage;

      (2) documents establishing that a prior marriage of the person has been dissolved; or

      (3) a court order granted under Section 2.103 authorizing the marriage of the person.


    § 2.103. COURT ORDER FOR UNDERAGE APPLICANT.
    (a) A minor may petition the court in the minor's own name for an order granting permission to marry. In a suit under this section, the trial judge may advance the suit if the best interest of the applicant would be served by an early hearing.

    (b) The petition must be filed in the county where a parent resides if a managing conservator or a guardian of the person has not been appointed. If a managing conservator or a guardian of the person has been appointed, the petition must be filed in the county where the managing conservator or the guardian of the person resides. If no person authorized to consent to marriage for the minor resides in this state, the petition must be filed in the county where the minor lives.

    (c) The petition must include:
    • (1) a statement of the reasons the minor desires to marry;

      (2) a statement of whether each parent is living or is dead;

      (3) the name and residence address of each living parent; and

      (4) a statement of whether a managing conservator or a guardian of the person has been appointed for the minor.
    (d) Process shall be served as in other civil cases on each living parent of the minor or, if a managing conservator or a guardian of the person has been appointed, on the managing conservator or guardian of the person. Citation may be given by publication as in other civil cases, except that notice shall be published one time only.

    (e) The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the minor in the proceeding and to speak for or against the petition in the manner the guardian ad litem believes to be in the best interest of the minor. The court shall specify a fee to be paid by the minor for the services of the guardian ad litem. The fee shall be collected in the same manner as other costs of the proceeding.

    (f) If after a hearing the court, sitting without a jury, believes marriage to be in the best interest of the minor, the court, by order, shall grant the minor permission to marry.

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