Legal Question in Family Law in Canada

Emancipation... Cost? Way to go about it?

And Will It cancel out the court order in place that my dad is only allowed supervised visits?


Asked on 1/12/11, 10:22 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Donald McLeod Donald R. McLeod Law Corp.

In British Columbia the concpt of "emancipation" is not known to our law; it is a concept unique to the law of the United States. There is a way to become independent of parents, as if one was an adult of legal age. It involves, among other things, an application to the Supreme Court of British Columbia to prove that the person under 19 years of age is self-supporting (and that does not mean having only a "McJob"), is capaple in every way of independent living, and not in any way dependant on the social welfare system. The court may require concrete evidence of educational plans, including how education will be paid for. The fact that you want such an order so as to displace an order that your father only have supervised visits is almost certainly going to doom any application to be declared independent, since it probably shows you have a lack of understanding of why the Court thought your father was a person who should not have unrestricted access to you.

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Answered on 1/13/11, 2:43 pm


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