Please help me

[TX17yroldmale]

Hello, I am 17 years old residing in the state of Texas, and I have had trouble with my mother(legal guardian) in the past and its not a physical abuse problem, but a definate phycological abuse problem in which being in her distinct presence makes me tense and uncomfortable. My grandmother is moving back down to Texas in a month and she will be getting a new apartment in my current city. I currently have a part-time job and I am attending school full time as a student. I needed to know if I could leave my mothers home without her jurisdiction, and move into my grandmothers house in which my grandmother would be fully supportive of.

Heres some more of my background: I have been kicked out several times by my mom, and in two cases she refused to allow me back in the house until she wanted me back. In another case she put garbage bags full of my clothes on the front porch in the dead of winter. I had went and stayed with my friend in the cases when i did get kicked out and we should have filed a report of neglect, but in my case we did not. I have also (before turning 17) ran away from my home and have been returned.

I keep getting mixed results but most of the questions i see are from 17 year old females who want to live with their 20 year old boyfriends, and this is definately not the same type of case.

Mother is against emancipation and has told me she does not mind if i go to live with my father in garland. He is a drug abuser and can hardly hold his own weight, but she hates my grandmother because when my grandmother raised her she was not really raising her.

Can someone please give me a straight, non biased answer on my situation please? I will be contacting my school counselor tomorrow and will be willing to update if anyone responds.

 

[sandyclaus]

Hello, I am 17 years old residing in the state of Texas, and I have had trouble with my mother(legal guardian) in the past and its not a physical abuse problem, but a definate phycological abuse problem in which being in her distinct presence makes me tense and uncomfortable. My grandmother is moving back down to Texas in a month and she will be getting a new apartment in my current city. I currently have a part-time job and I am attending school full time as a student. I needed to know if I could leave my mothers home without her jurisdiction, and move into my grandmothers house in which my grandmother would be fully supportive of.

Heres some more of my background: I have been kicked out several times by my mom, and in two cases she refused to allow me back in the house until she wanted me back. In another case she put garbage bags full of my clothes on the front porch in the dead of winter. I had went and stayed with my friend in the cases when i did get kicked out and we should have filed a report of neglect, but in my case we did not. I have also (before turning 17) ran away from my home and have been returned.

I keep getting mixed results but most of the questions i see are from 17 year old females who want to live with their 20 year old boyfriends, and this is definately not the same type of case.

Mother is against emancipation and has told me she does not mind if i go to live with my father in garland. He is a drug abuser and can hardly hold his own weight, but she hates my grandmother because when my grandmother raised her she was not really raising her.

Can someone please give me a straight, non biased answer on my situation please? I will be contacting my school counselor tomorrow and will be willing to update if anyone responds.

As a 17-year-old, unless you are emancipated, you are not legally allowed to decide where you want to live. Until you turn 18, your parents are the only ones who can make that decision for you.

While the police are unlikely to arrest you and drag you back home for being a runaway, they CAN hold anyone who ends up taking you in without your parents' explicit permission liable for harboring a runaway. That could mean legal trouble for your grandmother if that's where you try to go.

If you feel that living with your mom is so significantly destructive to you that you are being harmed by it, then call CPS and have them investigate. If they agree, perhaps they can arrange for you to live with the grandmother. If you don't involve them, or they don't agree to place you, then you would have no choice but to stick it out until you turn 18 and can make these kinds of decisions on your own.

 

[mistoffolees]

As a 17-year-old, unless you are emancipated, you are not legally allowed to decide where you want to live. Until you turn 18, your parents are the only ones who can make that decision for you.

While the police are unlikely to arrest you and drag you back home for being a runaway, they CAN hold anyone who ends up taking you in without your parents' explicit permission liable for harboring a runaway. That could mean legal trouble for your grandmother if that's where you try to go.

If you feel that living with your mom is so significantly destructive to you that you are being harmed by it, then call CPS and have them investigate. If they agree, perhaps they can arrange for you to live with the grandmother. If you don't involve them, or they don't agree to place you, then you would have no choice but to stick it out until you turn 18 and can make these kinds of decisions on your own.

Compounded by the fact that at 17, OP is either a junior or senior. If OP is a senior, it would make absolutely no sense to leave just a few months before graduation.

 

[TX17yroldmale]

Compounded by the fact that at 17, OP is either a junior or senior. If OP is a senior, it would make absolutely no sense to leave just a few months before graduation.

I am a junior.