Originally Posted by
Kayla_Johnson
I live in Indiana. My mother had no say so in the matter. She has been trying to get my father to let me back in. And I have tried going to the doctor and getting my own insurance, and they will not let me. My daughter is taken care of. And my father will not let my mother help me anymore. My uncle (who I am currently living with) and my daughters father are helping support her. She is on Medicaid. I was on medicaid because my father refuses to get a job, since he was fired for not going to work. He is ALSO claiming me and my daughter on his foodstamps, and we arent living there.
There are no guidelines for emancipation in Indiana. It's on a case by case basis. Your parents are responsible for you until you reach the age of majority unless either you get emancipated or they file to emancipate you.
If they do not want responsibility for you they can petition the Court to emancipate you. Some of the grounds might be that you are not under their custody and control and they don't want responsibility for you or your legal debts; that they cannot control you; that you are a run away.
You can likewise petition to be emancipated. If you want them to support you, sign you up on their insurance, whatever the problem is, you can file to force them to support you and they can (as I said) respond with a petition to emancipate you.
If your father is collecting food stamps for you and your daughter, that's a crime. I just don't know where you want to go with that.
I would suggest you speak to a legal representative and decide how you want to proceed.
Where are you living now?