17 and graduating in 4 months

[txsweetie824]

What is the name of your state? texas
I just turned 17 a month ago and I am graduating in 4 months. Last year my mom made me stop seeing my boyfriend who just currently turned 19 even though she was well aware of his age. I have a job right now. My boyfriend is moving in march and after I graduate my plan is to file for emancipation and move to arizona which is where he will be living. Seeing as though I would no longer be in high school and I would be moving out either way even if I didn't have my boyfriend. How hard should it be for me to file for emancipation or legal seperation?

 

[Wolflmg]

What is the name of your state? texas
I just turned 17 a month ago and I am graduating in 4 months. Last year my mom made me stop seeing my boyfriend who just currently turned 19 even though she was well aware of his age. I have a job right now. My boyfriend is moving in march and after I graduate my plan is to file for emancipation and move to arizona which is where he will be living. Seeing as though I would no longer be in high school and I would be moving out either way even if I didn't have my boyfriend. How hard should it be for me to file for emancipation or legal seperation?

How will you be supporting yourself? To pay for food, apartment rent, college, heathcare, car insurance?

Also I would also plan on not having a sexual relationship with your boyfriend, unless you are fully prepared to support any child that could come out of it. I would wait until you have a few years of college under your belt and a good paying job.

 

[txsweetie824]

How will you be supporting yourself? To pay for food, apartment rent, college, heathcare, car insurance?

I already have the option to have healthcare through my job and i already pay my own car insurance as it is. Food and rent wouldn't be a problem with the job I have, and with the issue of college I already have 2 decent size scholorships that i will end up using.

I just really could use all the advice that I can get right now. So anything would be of help. Thanks.

 

[seniorjudge]

"...Also I would also plan on not having a sexual relationship with your boyfriend, unless you are fully prepared to support any child that could come out of it. I would wait until you have a few years of college under your belt and a good paying job...."

Are you able to support a child also?

 

[txsweetie824]

we do not plan on having a sexual relationship right now but if were too and i did get pregnant between the 2 of us we would be able to support a child. \

I'm still wondering though if anyone knows what my chances are of being granted emancipation or legal seperation, especially now after knowing all of this information. Thanks.

 

[rmet4nzkx]

It sounds like you are doing very well, is the plan to go to school in AZ? If not why won't your parents just let you go to school there? Even though you have a job and schoolarships it is not a good idea to alieniate your parents there will be times when you need their moral support if not other types. I'll bet once you graduate, things will be different.

 

[txsweetie824]

I wish that when i graduate that things would be different but they won't be. I don't have a dad, I haven't seen him in 9 years and I haven't heard from him in 6, so my mom is the be all and end all of everything. When I graduate I will still be 17 and as far as I am aware of she can still keep me from seeing my boyfriend until I am 18 even if I am moving out. I have a couple of schools that I am looking at in AZ they may not be my first choice schools but I'm willing to make the sacrafice to be with my boyfriend. He's always was taking care of me up until the point when my mom wouldn't let me see him anymore and that was he intends on doing for the rest of our lives.

So anymore answers as too anyone thinks I will be able to get the emancipation that would be good. Thanks again.

 

[rmet4nzkx]

Things will be different once you graduate, and you will always be your momy's little girl, she doesn't want to lose you.I graduated early from high school so I was 17 whe I graduated also. I went to college, a community college abut 30 miles away. You would have thought I had died, my mother mourned me because she missed me. You only have one parent in your life, it's hard on a mom to see her little girl grow up, even when you are doing well, it is still difficult. She's scared about what will happen to you and you are playing into her fears, doing just the thing she fears. Sit down and talk to her, let her know how you feel, how you want to finish your education and how you and your boyfriend want to be together and have her blessing. Act like an adult, now is not the time to get into a struggle with your mom. You probably know how to work her anyway, trick is not to scare her, respect her and she will respect and support you in all the ways that count. Good Luck, it's really not a long time to wait.

 

[txsweetie824]

my thought for the last couple of months has been to tell my mom that i am considering filing for emancipation and giving her my reasons as to why. I know that if I do this though and I tell her that one of my reasons is so I can be with my boyfriend she will never go for it and I miss him so much. This last year has been the hardest year ever on me and all I want to do is be able to start my future and with the person I love.

 

[stealth2]

I tell her that one of my reasons is so I can be with my boyfriend she will never go for it and I miss him so much.

This won't impress the court much, either. To be legally emancipated, you're going to have to prove that you are able to support yourself, by yourself. That means you can afford to rent an apartment on your own and pay the entire rent, utilities, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment expenses, healthcare, etc. "I miss my boyfriend" doesn't enter the picture.

 

[txsweetie824]

that's why i'm pretty much planning on leaving that part out. I can support my self on my own without the help of anyone else. I've already stated that above.

 

[stealth2]

thing is - you actually have to PROVE that. To a judge.

 

[Wolflmg]

that's why i'm pretty much planning on leaving that part out. I can support my self on my own without the help of anyone else. I've already stated that above.

You may leave the boyfriend part out, but your mother will have a say in this too, in court.
The court will probably do background checks and so on, and unless they really find something bad agaisnt your mother they might not allow you to get what you want.

I have a soon to be 17 year old sister. She thinks she knows everything, and always wants to get what she's wants, and ends up hurting the people that love he.
Don't be hurting your mother just because she wont let you see your boyfriend, parents have reasons for these kinds of things. My sister had a boyfriend who we all thought was a good guy, we even thought his parents were good people, but as time went by we learned. He wasn't such a good guy. He was one of the worst, along with his parents. They were controling and maniplatives, and some other things. But I wont get into that stuff, its too hard and painful.
My family and I had a hard time convensing my sister he wasn't a good guy, but by the time she found that out, it was too late, the damage had been done.
So talk to your mom, tell her how you feel, listen to what she has to say, and I mean really listen to her. Seeing as how your father is out of your life, she's all you got.

 

[seniorjudge]

What is the name of your state? texas
I just turned 17 a month ago and I am graduating in 4 months. Last year my mom made me stop seeing my boyfriend who just currently turned 19 even though she was well aware of his age. I have a job right now. My boyfriend is moving in march and after I graduate my plan is to file for emancipation and move to arizona which is where he will be living. Seeing as though I would no longer be in high school and I would be moving out either way even if I didn't have my boyfriend. How hard should it be for me to file for emancipation or legal seperation?

Court is in session.

Ms Sweetie, I see here that you have filed a petition for emancipation. Tell me why I should grant it.

Proceed.

 

[stealth2]

that's why i'm pretty much planning on leaving that part out. I can support my self on my own without the help of anyone else. I've already stated that above.

Oh, and sweetheart? You may want to learn how to SPELL emancipation. 'Cause what you've got up there right now is somewhere between "emancipation" and "constipation". Not a comfy place to be.