Legal Question in Family Law in New York

I am a 17 year old, high honor roll student, working the maximum hours I can a week at a local movie theater. My family life is chaos and always fighting. My parents have been divorced since i was ten, and then i lived wiht my father for 3 years and had no communication with my mom. I refused to talk to her because she lied to me and I had no trust in her. I now live with her again and all there is is fighting and mayhem. I will be doing absolutely nothing wrong and she will just barge into my room and start yelling at me about talking to a social worker at school. CPS has been involved on many different accounts with my families situation. My sister has a mental issue and is always looking for the easy way out of school. She has a case manager that is here to help my family, but really does no good for any of us. My mom and i have tried several therapies and such to try and resolve our problems but they never accomplish anything. My mother favortizes my sisters a lot more then me for example.) gives them lunch money daily and has a huge fit about giving me any money. I have to pay my own cell phone bill while my sister who has had a cellphone for just as long as i have does not have to pay anything. On top of this all over a year ago my mom found a pipe in my room. She left it in there and joked about it with my friends. Now recently she found my friends in my car and flipped out to the point where now I am no longer allowed to drive and i have a 12 curfew. Neither of my parents have ever given me a curfew before. This weekend to she also found actual marijuana on my sister and she got to go out for the whole weekend with her friends. She seems to give her a lot less of punishments and a lot more advantagees when she does nothing at home to help her and in school is causing a lot of chaos to get out. I really would like to become emancipated, and i truely believe that i am a good kid. I plan on going to college next year after graduating and i will be 18 in five months, i just dont think i can hold out much longer with all the craiziness though.

Asked on 10/15/09, 11:21 pm

Michael Markowitz Michael A. Markowitz, PC

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The way the Court system operates, you are probably better off waiting until you are 18.

Mike.

Answered on 10/21/09, 8:51 am

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