Will Smith is about to encounter another Independence Day—not on a movie set, but within his own family.

The actor’s 14-year-old son, Jaden, has announced his desire to become legally emancipated so that he can live on his own, according the Sun.

The elder Smith, along with wife Jada Pinkett-Smith, agreed to give Jaden his freedom when the young actor celebrates his fifteenth birthday this July. Smith has said in interviews that he grew up with a strict father and understands why children want power over their own lives. He said he does not begrudge his son for “seeking a little piece of dignity” in the “extreme shadow” of his father’s movie star career.

Smith also revealed that he and his wife don’t believe in punishing their kids, and that they’ve chosen instead to encourage Jaden and daughter Willow to vocalize the reasons for their actions.

“From the time Jaden was five or six we would sit him down, and all he has to do is be able to explain why what he did was the right thing for his life,” Smith told the New York Daily News.

Since the time he was a tot, Jaden has been following in his father’s footsteps. The young Smith has already starred in seven films, including The Karate Kid and the sci-fi thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still, which also featured Jon Hamm and Jennifer Connelly. Like dad, he dabbles in music, having released his first mixtape last year and rapping alongside Justin Bieber in the hit Never Say Never—a video that has generated hundreds of millions of hits on You Tube. He recently started his own clothing label called MSFTSrep, which consists mainly of minimalist black and white hoodies, pants, and T-shirts. The younger Smith has even teamed up with his younger sister to become youth ambassadors for Project Zambia, a humanitarian effort to provide aid to Zambian children orphaned by AIDS.

If Jaden receives his emancipation birthday wish, the teen will join the ranks of actors and musicians — such as Drew Barrymore, Macaulay Culkin, Alicia Silverstone, and Courtney Love —  all of whom became liberated from their parents at young ages. As an underage performer, emancipation would allow Jaden to work longer hours on set, live separately from his parents, retain his own earnings, and manage his own business relationships. In order to have him emancipated, the Smiths will have to file court documents.