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Emancipation

  • 12-08-2010 7:31pm
    #1
    flightlessbird
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭


    Hey guys.

    How do you go about getting legally emancipated from your parents, and how much would it cost to do?

    For financial reasons regarding college and being under 23, I need to remove myself from being 'dependent' on my parents because they cannot help me and I cannot get a grant.

    I've e-mailed several different places in order to find answers, and I'm just wondering if anyone could give me advice on this.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    What age are you now?


  • #3
    flightlessbird
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭flightlessbird


    20.


  • #4
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Do you live at home still or do you live elsewhere?


  • #5
    BigBenRoeth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭BigBenRoeth


    An emancipation proclamation?
    I DONT LISTEN TO HIP HOP


  • #6
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    I think the problem is here is that a person becomes an adult at 18 but for the purposes of higher education grants a person is considered a dependant of their parents until the age of 23. It is a crazy situation.

    There seems to be no way around this even if you move out and rent your own place.

    It is a very interesting issue and I would have thought that some one would have challenged it in the courts by now.


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  • #7
    flightlessbird
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭flightlessbird


    Haddockman wrote: »
    Do you live at home still or do you live elsewhere?

    I still live at home at the moment.

    I will need to have moved out if I want to be emancipated though, I realise that. I have heard that emancipation has worked in the past for this situation.

    I'm just curious to how much it'd cost and what I need to do. I'm finding it very difficult to get information on.


  • #8
    dermot_sheehan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dermot_sheehan


    You can't get "emancipated" in Ireland. For education grant purposes, a parent is obliged to support their children until 18 or 23 if they are in full time education (Family Law Maintenance of Spouses and Children Act 1976).

    Emancipation refers to a court order that can be got in some american states that declares a person to be an adult and to be treated as an adult.

    The closest thing we have in ireland is some legislation that applies to under 18's doesn't apply to an under 18 who is married. To marry under 18 you need an order of the circuit court or high court (s. 33 of the Family Law Act).


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