Becoming Emancipated

[cbg]

And if I were to remain outside of my house for an extended period of time, then would it change my position because I thought if a party has been homeless or living outside of the home then this was a requirement?

NO.

Please pay careful attention.

It doesn't matter if your mother was beating you and starving you and locked you out of the house in a blinding snowstorm in nothing but your underwear with you pounding on the doors pleading to be let in and her laughing at you through the letter drop. If you do not meet the qualifications to be emancipated, you will not be emancipated. Period.

If the state finds that you are in a dangerous situation, it might put you in foster care. It might put you in a group home. It might send you to live with other relatives. But it will NOT emancipate you unless you meet Every. Single. One. of the requirements. Which you do not.

Understand?

 

[jsmit]

And if I were to remain outside of my house for an extended period of time, then would it change my position because I thought if a party has been homeless or living outside of the home then this was a requirement?

NO.

Please pay careful attention.

It doesn't matter if your mother was beating you and starving you and locked you out of the house in a blinding snowstorm in nothing but your underwear with you pounding on the doors pleading to be let in and her laughing at you through the letter drop. If you do not meet the qualifications to be emancipated, you will not be emancipated. Period.

If the state finds that you are in a dangerous situation, it might put you in foster care. It might put you in a group home. It might send you to live with other relatives. But it will NOT emancipate you unless you meet Every. Single. One. of the requirements. Which you do not.

Understand?

Entirely. So, like I had originally said, my other options include......? Foster care, group home, other relative, aaannd what else? If I were to stay with a close family friend (not blood relative) and my mother does not consent with it because she still is responsible for me legally, how does this work?

 

[CSO286]

Entirely. So, like I had originally said, my other options include......? Foster care, group home, other relative, aaannd what else? If I were to stay with a close family friend (not blood relative) and my mother does not consent with it because she still is responsible for me legally, how does this work?

If your mom does not consent to you staying with other relatives/friends, then you stay with Mom. You leave without Mom's consent? Expect to reported a runaway or an incorrigible and risk a foster care/group home placement.

If Mom is abusive, then you call the police/CPS, and run the risk of being placed in a foster care/group home setting.

Those are the options you have.

 

[>Charlotte<]

jsmit, here's a link to the State of California's "Self-Help" web page concerning emancipation. The information on that page will reinforce and expand upon what you've been told. Hope it helps.

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/family/emancip/emanqa.htm

 

[Banned_Princess]

Entirely. So, like I had originally said, my other options include......? Foster care, group home, other relative, aaannd what else? If I were to stay with a close family friend (not blood relative) and my mother does not consent with it because she still is responsible for me legally, how does this work?

Well right now your option is to stay at home, and keep you mom off your back by doing whatever it is that she wants you to do. sucks yea, but as is life. Deal with it.

Should the situation come up again, then you CALL THE POLICE and then you can remove your stuff, and the choice is not yours where they put you. they put you where they put you, and you deal with that until you are an adult. (they will kick you out at that time anyway) then you can stay with any friend who's parents will put up with your grown self until the end of time.

 

[jsmit]

Well, the advice was grand and I appreciate it from everyone who posted. I got a good idea of what to do, better than just cooking up a master plan on my own and getting shot down because of ignorance and lack of legal knowledge. Thanks once again, it was greatly appreciated.