@RK06 wrote:
I also did some research with our state website, and it states that "You can't be legally emancipated after you are an adult."...
Don't get yourself confused. Being a legal adult means you are emancipated. "Emancipation" also refers to a legal proceeding where a minor child can go to court and petition for an early emancipation -- to be released from their parent's control before the normal legal age -- due to abuse, financial mismanagement, or other reasons. When your state says "you can't be emancipated after you are a legal adult," another way of saying that is "you can't petition the court for early emancipation after you have been automatically emancipated by turning 18." In other words, you can't ask the court to do something that has already happened automatically.
The IRS is using the terminology to mean "once a child is a legal adult, these rules no longer apply."
