Legal Question in Family Law in Michigan

moving out

I am 17 years old and I want to move out. I have a job, close to a 4.0 student i was taking duel enrollment classes at community college. I obey the rules my parents have set for me, sometimes I might question them on the rules, but regardless I obey them. I pay for my phone bill and car insurance every month. When I am done with school and work in the same day I go home and clean up the house and do my homework. All in all a very good kid. Some times I can sass my mom but rarely and as a teenager who doesnt. But my parents are still impossible to live with. I get one day during the week to spend with my boyfriend and my curfew is usually 9:30, but my dad was being spiteful and made it 9:00 the other night. Well I said it was not fair and left it at that. But later I texted my mom saying it was fair and that when I am 18 and move out you will never see me if you keep being over baring. When I got home at 9:00 and they came out of the house and corner me at the door and said give me your keys and cell phone. I gave them my keys and called my boyfriend before I gave them my phone. well they were screaming and hollering. I can't take this anymore and I need to move out.


Asked on 4/22/09, 1:41 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Lesley Hoenig Lesley A. Hoenig, Attorney at Law

Re: moving out

If you are asking whether you can be emancipated and live on your own, you are going to have to be able to show you can provide for yourself. You say you pay your phone bill and car insurance, what about paying for rent, food, tuition, etc on top of that?

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Answered on 4/23/09, 12:58 pm


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