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The answer depends on where you live. States vary in minor emancipation laws. However, as a general rule, you are considered a non-adult until you reach the age of 18 ("age of majority"). Unless you are able to prove yourself financially self-supportive and sufficient and you can demonstrate a siginificant threat to your well-being (i.e., abuse, neglect, death threats), most judges will not allow for emancipation. Even then, more often than not people are placed under temporary foster care until they come of age. Emancipation is viewed as a last legal resort to other viable circumstances.

In Alabama and Nebraska the legal age of majority is 19, in Mississippi it is 21, and in all other states it is 18.

The requirements for emancipation:

Minors who marry or join the armed forces generally qualify for emancipation. In addition, most states allow emancipation of minors upon proof that they are capable of living as adults. These laws vary from state to state, but they generally require that: (1) the minor is managing her own finances, has a legal source of income, and is not financially dependent on her parents; (2) the minor is living independently from her parents (some states require a separate residence; others allow emancipation of minors who still live in their parents= home but pay rent or otherwise show independence); and (3) emancipation would be in the minor=s best interest.

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