Emancipation

[fashinon_diva16]

I'm 16 years old and I practicually live with my dad but since school started I live with my mom. So on my dad has been yelling at me non-stop. Saying I'm manuplating him and etc. I've been crying since this last tuesday and I can't stand living with him anymore. My bf who's 18 is trying to get an emancipation for me but I don't know what the rule is in Washington. I need to know if I'm able to move out of my parents in Washington to move in with him and his family. Please help me?

[cyjeff]

I'm 16 years old and I practicually live with my dad but since school started I live with my mom. So on my dad has been yelling at me non-stop. Saying I'm manuplating him and etc. I've been crying since this last tuesday and I can't stand living with him anymore. My bf who's 18 is trying to get an emancipation for me but I don't know what the rule is in Washington. I need to know if I'm able to move out of my parents in Washington to move in with him and his family. Please help me?

There is no judge in any jurisdiction that will emancipate you so that you can move in with your adult boyfriend.

Did you REALLY think you could just run away and play house?

[fashinon_diva16]

no I didn't but I also had other opitions to move in with my friend kassiy who's the same age as me. Her mom is like another mom to me also but i just don't know what to do

[mrshiggins]

Unless you can fully support yourself which means you aren't on any aid, aren't on anyone else's bill then you are able to emancipate yourself. Just because you have a fight with your father, or doesn't like his rules isn't going to suffice. I mean just think of how many teenagers would be emancipated if they didn't like the rules. I would be careful with an 18 year old boyfriend too... he's an adult, you're still a child.

[cbg]

Your boyfriend is wasting his time. He has no legal standing to "get an emancipation for you". If he's really lucky, maybe the judge will not fine him for wasting the judge's time, but trust me, nothing your bf does is going to emancipate you.

Unless you yourself alone with no help from anyone, including your boyfriend, can pay for your rent (on a place where your boyfriend is NOT also a resident - there is no way on earth you will be emancipated to live with him), food, clothing, utilities, medical care, transportation, insurance, school fees and supplies, and all the other necessities of life, don't even think about emancipation because it isn't going to happen.

Your dad yelling at you is not even CLOSE to a valid reason for a judge to emancipate you, even in the unlikely circumstances that you are able to meet the condition above.