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I'll be 17 in august of this year. I dont have a job or a car. I'm working on that one. I go to school and I have a boyfriend, but hes not moved out yet because hes still looking for a house. Me and mother get along to the point where we can look at each other, joke around a little, eat dinner together, not kill each other while she works at the same school I go to, and barely live in the same house. We argue so much that I actually considered suicide, but never worked up the guts to attempt anything dumb like that. I'm completely over that now, but we don't ever stop. She's extremely cheap and won't buy me a decent truck or car that actually runs or that even looks like its a vehicle. We argue over the stupidest shit simply because she thinks shes always right and when I am she just treats me worse than shit. It wears me down so bad sometimes that if I had a vehicle, I would leave for days and not let her know where I was because shes so rude and snooty. I want out to keep myself from overstressing like I have in the past, and save my sisters the heartache of having to hear their older sister threaten to leave their mother because of the terrible treatment all three of us get Please HELP!
Hi nonne34,
In most states, you must be 18 to legally move out. To move out at 17, you must become legally emancipated from your parents.
While laws for emancipation from parents vary state to state, here are some basic requirements and the process:
To be emancipated, you must either: 1. Be living APART from your parents and managing your own money 2. Be in the armed forces 3. Be married 4. The court must decide that an emancipation is in the best interests of you or your parents
The process of emancipation:
Either you or your parents can start the emancipation process. The person who starts the process files, or has a lawyer file, an 'emancipation petition' with the court. If you need a lawyer to start this process or to defend yourself and you cannot afford one, the juvenile court may appoint one for you at no charge.
There will be a meeting (or hearing) in front of a judge to talk about the emancipation petition. Only the judge can order the emancipation.
You also must prove to the judge that you can financially live on your own.
Gurl me and you are in the same boat. Sometimes we can't even wake up without arguing. It is extremly ridiculous. She is s childish,but like u I wish it was just my mom who I didn't get along with instead it is both of my parents. what are you doing to keep yourself together,because I am at that point were I just want to die if I can't move out soon.
