My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Missouri
My parents have guardianship of my nephew. The state of Missouri took all parental rights away from my brother and my nephew's mother (she resides out of state). They have had guardianship for the past 10 years. My nephew is getting ready to turn 17 in four months. We just found out, my nephew is not biologically my brother's child. His name is listed as the father on his birth certificate, but a state ordered paternity test proved otherwise. My nephew does not want to leave the state and go back to his mother. (Her parental rights were taken away anyway.) Is there any chance, if my nephew is holding down a job on his own, that this situation could give him cause to petition the court for emancipation so he can stay around the only family he has ever known? If he can prove himself to be self-sufficient? Could his guardians give consent for him to be emancipated or will the courts step in since they have been found technically to not be biologically his grandparents?

