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Topic: Emancipation


In the News (Sat 11 Oct 08)

  
  California Courts: Self-Help Center: Families & Children: Emancipation: Emancipation Questions & Answers
Emancipation is a legal way for children to become adults before they're 18.
Once a child is emancipated, his or her parents don't have custody or control of him or her anymore.
If you are emancipated, you will give up the right to be supported by your parents.
www.courtinfo.ca.gov /selfhelp/family/emancip/emanqa.htm   (275 words)

  
  Emancipation Proclamation - MSN Encarta
Emancipation Proclamation, proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, declaring all “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State...
Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation marked a radical change in his policy; historians regard it as one of the great state documents of the United States.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, the slavery issue was made acute by the flight to Union lines of large numbers of slaves who volunteered to fight for their freedom and that of their fellow slaves.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574881/Emancipation_Proclamation.html   (468 words)

  
 Emancipation of Minors - All US States
In the context of emancipated minors, emancipation is essentially a legal procedure whereby children become legally responsible for themselves and their parents are no longer responsible (financially or otherwise) for their children.
Likewise, the emancipated minor may submit certain legal forms to the California Department of Motor Vehicles along with a certified copy of the Declaration of Emancipation so the minor's driver's license or identification card will show that he or she is emancipated.
Although the emancipation procedure is not exactly "divorcing" one's parents, it is a method whereby a minor can become free of his or her parents' control and responsibility.
usmarriagelaws.com /search/united_states/emancipation_of_minors/index.shtml   (1210 words)

  
 URJ - Emancipation
The term "emancipation" is derived from Latin (emancipation), and originally meant in ancient Rome the liberation of a son from the authority of his father and his attainment of independent legal status.
Indeed, Jewish emancipation was related to the weakening of the general social antipathy toward Jews; but the antipathy was not obliterated, and constantly hampered the realization of equality even after it had been proclaimed by the state and included in the law.
Emancipation was, however, dependent on actual political and social conditions in each country and on the residential, cultural, and social characteristics of the Jewish population.
urj.org /worship/letuslearn/emancipation   (1105 words)

  
 Legal Services for Children - Emancipation
Emancipation allows youth to be freed from the custody and control of their parents and to have many of the rights and responsibilities of an adult.
To be emancipated by a judge, a minor must give his/her parent(s) notice of the court hearing, and the parent(s) may go to court to contest the emancipation.
Emancipation is meant to be a positive step for a minor, not a way for parents to get out of their parental responsibilities.
www.lsc-sf.org /problems/emancipation.html   (482 words)

  
 Emancipation
He becomes emancipated who acquires neither merit nor demerit, who casts off the merits and demerits accumulated in previous births, who wastes the elements of his body for attaining to a tranquillised soul, and who transcends all pairs of opposites.
Emancipation, however, being eternal, the temporary dissociation of the soul from the understanding etc., which is the consequence of dreamless sleep, is the result of Tamas or Darkness.
Over the felicity of Emancipation also, the felicity, viz., which is awakened by the inspired teaching of the Vedas and in which no one sees the slightest tincture of sorrow,- the same indescribable and truth-concealing darkness seems to spread itself (but in reality the felicity of Emancipation is unstained by darkness).
www.hinduism.co.za /emancipa.htm   (6284 words)

  
 Emancipation
Prior to the hearing of the emancipation petition, notice must be given to the parent, guardian, or other persons entitled to custody of the minor, as well as to the district attorney of the county where the petition is filed.
Once a minor is emancipated, she is entitled to consent to medical care, enter into binding contracts and real estate transactions, sue and be sued, enroll in school, establish her own residence, and apply for work permits.
The court generally looks at the harm that will come to the child if emancipation is granted and the judge relies on his or her own personal experiences when examining the totality of the circumstances surrounding the petition.
www.bostoncoop.net /lcd/full/node62.html   (1290 words)

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