17 year old wanting to be on her own.

[RickWolford]

My friend lives in Washington state. She hates living there, hates living with her uncle that verbally abuses her, and wants to move to Oklahoma with me. She wants to just get her GED and go to college. But shes 17 years old and doesn't turn 18 till June of 2011. I'm financially capable of taking care of her and she will get a part time job. Is this legally possible? And if so, how? I mean I'm will to go as far as to get married to her to get her at Age of Majority.

 

[cyjeff]

Nope... no way in hell.

 

[RickWolford]

So she has to suffer I guess =/

 

[cyjeff]

So she has to suffer I guess =/

Stop the drama.

You asked a legal question.

I didn't look up the emancipation statutes for Washington, but I don't have to. Even if there is an emancipation statute for Washington (and not all states have them), there isn't a single judge in the country that is going to emancipate a child so that she can go shack up with someone in another state.

She is not living on her own.... she doesn't have a job... there is NO compelling reason to be emancipated.

If she is being abused, have her call child protective services... if they find cause, she will be put in foster care until she is 18.

If your next answer is "she doesn't want to go into foster care", then she isn't really being abused.... and you have NO case.

Even if everything aligned... she STILL wouldn't be emancipated before her 18th birthday.

Sorry... you are going to have to wait a little longer before you play house.

 

[RickWolford]

Stop the drama.

You asked a legal question.

I didn't look up the emancipation statutes for Washington, but I don't have to. Even if there is an emancipation statute for Washington (and not all states have them), there isn't a single judge in the country that is going to emancipate a child so that she can go shack up with someone in another state.

She is not living on her own.... she doesn't have a job... there is NO compelling reason to be emancipated.

If she is being abused, have her call child protective services... if they find cause, she will be put in foster care until she is 18.

If your next answer is "she doesn't want to go into foster care", then she isn't really being abused.... and you have NO case.

Even if everything aligned... she STILL wouldn't be emancipated before her 18th birthday.

Sorry... you are going to have to wait a little longer before you play house.

Im not trying to play house sir.
Shes been in foster care twice already and hates it there too.
But I still thank you taking the time to answer my question.

 

[cyjeff]

Im not trying to play house sir.
Shes been in foster care twice already and hates it there too.
But I still thank you taking the time to answer my question.

You said you were willing to marry her.

Sounds like playing house to me... or were you just trying to defraud the system?

 

[RickWolford]

You said you were willing to marry her.

Sounds like playing house to me... or were you just trying to defraud the system?

If I was willing to do this illegally, then she would already be here. But I'm not cause I don't want to get in trouble with the law.
So no, I'm not trying to defraud the system.
But am I willing to take steps to work around it if at all possible? Absolutely.

 

[cbg]

Unless she, and she alone, without any help from anyone INCLUDING YOU, is capable of paying 100% of her own rent (market rate, not a token to a family member or friend), utilities, food, clothing, transportation, insurance, medical care, staples, and all the other incidentals of life, then she doesn't qualify to be emancipated anyway, regardless of the "living with the boyfriend" issue. Which Jeff correctly states would defeat emancipation before it began, all by itself.

In NO state - repeat - NO state - can a minor under the age of 18 marry without the permission of her parents/legal guardian, the court, or both.

There are Federal charges that you could be subject to if she crosses state lines and anyone even THINKS (rightly or wrongly) that the two of you are having sex.

Are you beginning to get the idea just how impossible this is?

 

[RickWolford]

Unless she, and she alone, without any help from anyone INCLUDING YOU, is capable of paying 100% of her own rent (market rate, not a token to a family member or friend), utilities, food, clothing, transportation, insurance, medical care, staples, and all the other incidentals of life, then she doesn't qualify to be emancipated anyway, regardless of the "living with the boyfriend" issue. Which Jeff correctly states would defeat emancipation before it began, all by itself.

In NO state - repeat - NO state - can a minor under the age of 18 marry without the permission of her parents/legal guardian, the court, or both.

There are Federal charges that you could be subject to if she crosses state lines and anyone even THINKS (rightly or wrongly) that the two of you are having sex.

Are you beginning to get the idea just how impossible this is?

Yeah, I was "getting" it from the very beginning.

 

[cbg]

Then may I assume that, having now been told on two different boards that it is ILLEGAL for you to take her out of state and ILLEGAL for her to leave home without permission as long as she is even a minute under 18, I will not find this question posted on any of the other four boards where I respond?

That you will now cease trying to find a way around the law and accept that she's going to stay where she is until her 18th birthday? That unless CPS sees fit to remove her from the home (in which case she will NOT be living with you), you both understand that she lives where her legal guardian says she lives?

I may rightly assume that, may I not?

 

[RickWolford]

Then may I assume that, having now been told on two different boards that it is ILLEGAL for you to take her out of state and ILLEGAL for her to leave home without permission as long as she is even a minute under 18, I will not find this question posted on any of the other four boards where I respond?

That you will now cease trying to find a way around the law and accept that she's going to stay where she is until her 18th birthday? That unless CPS sees fit to remove her from the home (in which case she will NOT be living with you), you both understand that she lives where her legal guardian says she lives?

I may rightly assume that, may I not?

Actually sir, I manage to get parental consent with paperwork.

 

[xylene]

You got parental consent to what?

Move a minor to another state to polish your knob?

I doubt it, and that is still a crime, even with whatever phony paperwork...

 

[Just Blue]

If I was willing to do this illegally, then she would already be here. But I'm not cause I don't want to get in trouble with the law.
So no, I'm not trying to defraud the system.
But am I willing to take steps to work around it if at all possible? Absolutely.

How old are you...And YES! this is LEGALLY RELEVANT.