Zigner
Senior Member, Non-Attorney
Earlier you said he was 17:So if he was somehow able to get a full-time job at 16, he would qualify?
My 17 year old brother also wants to move in with us...
Earlier you said he was 17:So if he was somehow able to get a full-time job at 16, he would qualify?
My 17 year old brother also wants to move in with us...
Yes, that's your friend's family. Your brother's family would just be you...a person who is crashing at a friend's place.My friend's family that I moved in with is two parents who both work, and have multiple younger children. They're happy to have me here and would be happy to let my brother stay here for as long as he needed, whether or not I'm here
So there's no way for a minor to move out of a parent's house without their consent?Emancipation is not and never was intended to be a means for a minor to move out. It was and is intended to provide legal protections to those minors who, through circumstances outside their own control, found themselves living on their own. To qualify for emancipation, they need to be supporting themselves, meaning that they pay every penny of their rent, utilities, food, clothing, transportation, medical care, insurance, staples, school fees and supplies, and all the other incidentals of life, alone and unassisted.
About the only reason for emancipation I've ever heard that is a valid reason for emancipation is, "Both my parents were killed in a car crash and I need the ability to sign contracts so that I can pay the rent and keep the lights on".
He turns 17 on June 1st, I posted the original question thinking that it would take at least until then for us to decide whether or not he could be emancipated and to take it to court. But as of today he's still 16Earlier you said he was 17:
Not in the circumstances you describe.So there's no way for a minor to move out of a parent's house without their consent?
There are more than two ways.There are two ways for a minor to leave home while still a minor and not risk being dragged back home by his ear. One is WITH parental consent. The other is if he is removed by the state. If he is removed by the state, the state will decide where he lives, not the minor himself.
My friend's family that I moved in with is two parents who both work, and have multiple younger children. They're happy to have me here and would be happy to let my brother stay here for as long as he needed, whether or not I'm here
The people you are staying with are dangerous, immoral people who seem to have no problem with undermining another parent.He turns 17 on June 1st, I posted the original question thinking that it would take at least until then for us to decide whether or not he could be emancipated and to take it to court. But as of today he's still 16