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    Default Best Friend in Kansas needs Emancipation

    My Best Friend lives in Kansas. His mom is neglectful and controlling. She left him at home for 4 days without water or sewer and they live miles from anywhere. He is homeschooled (except he knows more than she does) but she never spends any time working on his schoolwork with him. She wont let him see his friends unless she is there to watch. He doesn't want to call in Child and Family Services unless he has to. He'd like to get his GED and get Emancipated. I've already done research on getting his GED, but i'm having trouble finding the laws and requirements for Kansas to get him Emancipated. I'd like to read the law and maybe some actual court cases on this. Can you help?

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    Default Kansas Emancipation Law

    According to the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri,
    Quote Quoting Is there any way to be legally recognized as an adult even though I'm not 18?
    Yes. In Kansas, everyone 16 or over or who is married is recognized as an adult in all matters relating to contracts, property rights, and liabilities - and has the capacity to sue or be sued.

    Another way to gain legal adult status before you turn 18 is through emancipation. Emancipation means you are self-supporting, free from parental control, and you have all the rights and responsibilities that come with adulthood. In Kansas, if you are accompanied by someone over 21, you can apply for emancipation by filing a petition stating your age, that you have lived in Kansas for at least one year, and the reasons that you want to gain the rights and responsibilities of an adult. A judge may grant you emancipated minor status if he or she finds that you are of sound mind, that you can transact your own affairs, and that your best interest is promoted through emancipation.

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    Unhappy Re: Kansas Emancipation Law

    "In Kansas, if you are accompanied by someone over 21, you can apply for emancipation by filing a petition stating your age, that you have lived in Kansas for at least one year, and the reasons that you want to gain the rights and responsibilities of an adult."

    Does the person over the age of 21 need to be a Kansas resident? Does it need to be a family member?

    And someone told me that the Minor would have to have his GED first. Is that true?

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    Default Re: Kansas Emancipation Law

    I can only tell you what the statute says. If you want to know how local courts are interpreting the statute, or what additional requirements may exist which are not within the statute, consider checking with a Kansas family lawyer.

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    Default um thanks?

    can you point me to a place where i can read the emancipation laws for Kansas? I'd really like some more specific information on this. Or if you could refer me to a lawyer who would be able to answer my questions more fully that would be great...

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    The statute probably won't help you very much:
    Quote Quoting Kansas Statutes, Section 38-108. District court may confer rights of majority.
    That the district courts for the several counties in this state shall have authority to confer upon minors the rights of majority, concerning contracts and real and personal property, and to authorize and empower minors to purchase, hold, possess and control in their own person and right, and without the intervention or control of a guardian or trustee, any goods, chattels, rights, interests in lands, tenements and effects by such minor lawfully acquired or inherited; and such minor shall have full power to hold, convey and dispose of the same, and to make contracts and be subject to all the liabilities incident thereto, sue and be sued, and in all respects to exercise and enjoy all rights of property and of contracts in the same manner and to the same extent as persons at the age of majority.

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    Default Re: Best Friend in Kansas needs Emancipation

    Would he need to have his GED first? and does he need to be living on his own with a job first? I don' think his mom would let him...

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