Q: Hello, I am 15 years old. I want to know how to get emancipated once I turn 16 (6 months) its very urgent. Please help
My step-mother has PTSD and constantly gets in my face and will assault me verbally. She has told me to go ahead and kill mystelf, forced me back against things pinning me and screams at me literally no space between her and my face upon asking her to move she did so longer. My hands were at my sides but she later made up that I had tried to hit her, she also made up that I am hitting her animals none of those claims are true and she gives absolutly no evidence to prove them as true and she can't because they aren't. She has refused to give me my medications and put me in counsling, I have no freedom what so ever, I rarely leave my room at all. She told me she does not want me here and she hates me, I am constantly insulted and emotionally and verbally abused. All she is at this point is money and a ride I have to cook all the time, clean all the time, care for the animals. I care for myself the house and others. She took my phone which another adult pays for not her. I cant stay here
A: To request emancipation, you have to prepare and file ( at the courthouse) a written petition requesting the Judge order that you be deemed an adult. A copy will have to be served ( delivered) to both parents. If you parents don't object, you petition will be granted. If they do object, a hearing will have to be scheduled for the Judge to hear testimony from both you and your parents. You need to obtain proof of your claims as well ( video or audio recordings or photographs).
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