I just turned 17 and I live in Georgia. I currently take online school because I am involved with music on many different levels. I am the youngest of all my friends and the band I am in just got signed to a booking agency. My parents are not to happy about long amounts of touring. I am also working 30 hours a week in a recording studio which requires me to be their late at night and sometimes early into the morning but that is fine because I have a sleeping disorder. My parents and I have never really got along because there "ideal" son plays sports and will graduate from Auburn, I have no plan to go to college. We often fight but to be honest neither of them are that physically abusive and I have only been hit once in an argument. The problem is I am not able to advance in my musical career in both playing shows and producing music, which is what I plan on doing for a living. My parents are constantly telling me that if I do not attend college I will fail and what not but I beat out about a dozen guys between 25 and 30 for my job. I currently have a car which I bought (thought there name is on the title), pay the insurance, pay my cell phone bill and buy all my food except for one meal a week that I eat at home. I teach guitar and between that and the studio I bring in close to 400 dollars a week. I have a few thousand set aside for when I move out. Many of my friends are moving out I have been talking to my psychiatrist and he told me to look into this. The only thing I do not pay for is my medicine but I think that as long as i am in school, even as an adult I can stay on my fathers health care plan. Once I finish school I have one year before I am on my own to buy my medicine. I have been researching it and I think I have some good reasons. I was looking for some other opinions though. Let me know what my chances are.

Thanks,
Robert

You could have a very good case for being emancipated. BUT, since you are already 17, you could very well be 18 before your case gets to court. When is you birthday?

2 weeks ago, also do I need parental consent or can I go to court and do it all?

2 weeks ago, also do I need parental consent or can I go to court and do it all?

If you can't get mom & dad's permission, you'll have to go throught the court. With your situation, there is a good chance the court will allow it. But you might turn 18 before you get to court. It's not a FAST process.

If you can't get mom & dad's permission, you'll have to go throught the court. With your situation, there is a good chance the court will allow it. But you might turn 18 before you get to court. It's not a FAST process.

I talked to them about it and they said no so I guess I am going to have to go through court, What would my first step be?

I talked to them about it and they said no so I guess I am going to have to go through court, What would my first step be?


http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/fulltext/hb847.htm This is the actual Georgia law on Emancipation of a minor. Read through it and make sure you meet all of the qualifications.

http://www.albany.ga.us/law_library/documents/Emancipation%20of%20a%20Minor.pdf This is a pdf file with step by step instructions and "fill in the blank" emancipation forms. NOTE: these are for Dougherty County, GA, so if you live in any other county, you will need to make sure to change it to the correct county.

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OK I am 19 and I am dating a guy that is 17 he will be 18 october 19, 2006 his grandmother has legal guardianship over him. he has a 15 yr old sister who has ruynaway numerous times. till eventually there gma on their moms side took custody of her. . before i came into his life he had a serious depression problem and he cut is wrists. he would never report her for mental abuse because his grandfather was there and very sick. his grandfater went into the hospital sometime before last october.my bf left home and came to georgia on october 27, 2005. she reported him as a runaway. he talked with her and secided to go home beacuse his grandfater got really sick and they didn't think that he was going to make it. his grandfather passed away on 1/25/06 on 1/28/06 him and i returned to his grandmothers in las vegas.i lived in the home with my bf and his gma from 1/28/06 till 4/25/06 she did nothing but cuss him and talk down to him and make his life terrible. she had never met me till then and never met my family as of today but she talked about my family like they were trash called me all kinds of thing. told him he was nothing but a problem to her and that he was nothing but a stubborn bastard like his grandfather. so on 4/25/06 we left and came back to georgia again she reported him as a runaway. an officer came to my house and picked him up on 5/01/06. he is in our ydc-youth detention center as i speak. i don't know the laws of georgia nor do i know the laws of neveda but i do know this
MISSING CHILDREN

Missing juveniles are classified as voluntary, abducted by parent, abducted by stranger, or cause of disappearance unknown.

A Runaway child is considered by to be a voluntary missing juvenile.

A runaway child is always 'at risk" and demands prompt attention by law enforcement. Therefore, Police are empowered under the law to take a runaway child into "protective custody," but the child CANNOT be placed into a lockdown facility or juvenile detention center. Being a runaway is NOT A CRIME - only a "status offense."

When police find a runaway child, they can take the child home or to the nearest runaway youth shelter. The runaway shelter in Clark County is WESTCARE YOUTH CENTER at 401 S. Martin Luther King Boulevard (385-2020).

Police CANNOT make a "forced entry' into a private home to recover a runaway child, unless the child is in danger or life-threatening situation. Police, however, can assist parents when a runaway is uncooperative or there is a risk of violence.

that is straight from a lasvegas juvenile detective. i really need some guidance here i know that he wants to get emancipated here i don't know any laws about if you can help please contact me at princesspeaches082786@yahoo.com he has only got till 10/19/06 then he is 18.