Legal Emancipation Options

[Gypsy Eyes]

Legal Emancipation: An emancipation is a legal procedure that frees children from the custody and control of their parents or guardians before they reach the age of majority

Have you ever considered this? Why or why not?

I'm not talking about the typical "OMG I HATE MY PARENTS" phase. This is much more serious.

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Mods feel free to move this, I wasn't sure if it should go here

[starlette]

I actually seriously considered doing it because my legal guardian was trying to turn me away from my mother and wasnt allowing me to see her even though in the legal papers my mom had every right to see me. But it was like, 4 months before my 18th birthday so I just waited because the whole process would have taken longer than 4 months. But I was dead serious. I think its wrong for someone to try and turn you away from your mother. I should be able to see her for the week that shes in town to see me from halfway across the country. I'm glad I didn't do it though because my cousin (my legal guardian at the time) and I are now really close because we worked it out. I'm really grateful because if I had emancipated myself we wouldn't have the great relationship we have now that we worked it all out. I say unless your parents are abusive or neglecting you, don't do it. I mean a friend of mine was born with a crack addiction which caused her to have so many health problems that she cant tell her mother about because her mother will want to know where shes getting the money to treat for example her endometrial cancer (that she found out about at 16 years old and has been getting money for from her grandmother secretly to be treated), her mother was using child support to continue her drug habit while my friend was paying the bills at 15 years old. Then you get emancipated.