Q: What is the process of getting emancipated at 16 and being pregnant as a resident of newyork?
I’ll be having my Son on the 21st of December, my mother is staying in an assisted living place for homeless people. She is a current addict. My father passed away 6 months ago. He only had temporary custody of me when he passed away. Since he’s passed I’ve been passed from sibling to sibling and none of them have legal guardianship of me. I was informed when he passed away that technically my mother should have regained custody but considering she is unfit I do not live with her. Under all of these circumstances I want to be able to live on my own and provide for my son and I without any issues with my age or my crazy mother. How hard and what would I have to do to make that happen?
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There is no such process as "emancipation" in any state. Perhaps the real question here is whether there is a process to advance a child's age to eighteen years of age by operation of law: a process to make a child into an adult. That does not exist, and the asker remains a child virtually incapable of sustaining herself in our capitalist culture until she reaches eighteen, the age of adulthood.
This is an example of a child "falling through the cracks" and ending up invisible in society available to be preyed upon.
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