• Emancipation must be in your best interest.
  
• You must be at least fourteen years old.
  
• You must be managing your own financial affairs.
  
• Your income must be from a legal source.
  
• You should be in school. (The law on Emancipation does not require that you be in school, but the compulsory education laws do. The Judge usually wants to see that you are either in school or have already graduated or gotten a GED).
  
• You must willingly live separate and apart from your parents with consent or acquiescence of your parents.

LACY does assist in custody cases if it involves a teen parent. LACY can also represent a child involved in a custody case if the court appoints us.

What is Guardianship?

Legal Guardianship is a formal decision by a judge that suspends parent's custody of their child and gives custody to a non-parent.