My Friends Say I Should Seek Emancipation

[Nameless94]

Alot of my friends say that my mom doesn't treat me right and suggest I get emancipated. I don't know if they are just being teenagers or not. I live in Florida and you can't get emancipated unless your parent fills out the form. And of course she's not going to do that. We (me and my mom) live in her boyfriends house for about 3 years now. He kicked my sister out because as he says 'she indangered him seeing his kids' not long after we moved in. But my mom agrees with me when I tell her that he only kicked my sister out cause she had a problem with him smoking pot. Ever since he got rid of my sister he treats me like unwanted rubbish. And he yells at me for everything possible. I stay in my room all day, I only come out to go to the bathroom or get things to eat. Sometimes I wont even go out and get things to eat. An he thinks I'm not here at time because I do this but when he finds out I am his attitude changes completely and he gets all mad and what not. My mom doesn't do anything about it. And she has changed greatly since dating him. She no longer is there like she use to be. The only things I here from her is when she can yell at me for something. Otherwise shes just off doing what ever. Stepping out of this room is like walking on really fragile important glass. Even if I do good things like get As and Bs on my report card its like nothing to her but if I get bad grades it's like I just murdered somebody. She doesn't hit me though. It's just I always mess things up. She smokes pot too at times only because of her fibromyalgia. It lessens her pain, at least that's the reason she gave me. Because of her Illness I clean everything. The house and whatnot. That's what most would call my chores. But I don't feel well and am afraid to leave my room so it doesn't get done all the time. I'm not entirely well myself. Or rather I never feel well. My mom tells me it's all in my head. She has taken me to my pediatrition cause that's what medicade gave me. An somethings he tells her to call numbers of professionals he gives her to have them look at because he can't do anything about them himself. Like my hipps, knees, and ankles hurt when I walk almost 95% of the time. And my knees and ankles give out on me randomly at time causeing me to fall. And because she doesn't feel like driving to some place far away still in Florida to see a specialist for me it will never happen. She kicks me out randomly of the house for two to four days at times. But then tells me I have to come back. Then when I get here there's always something that needs to be cleaned. And when she yells at me everything is always my fault not that she says that directly but in ways of 'this is like this because you did or didn't do this'. The emotional stress it causes me results in me losing my apitite and not being able to eat anything while I'm at this place I'm suppose to call home. When I can't even come here if my moms not here and Ray(her boyfriend) is. To me that's not a home. It seems like she doesn't care unless she gets to yell at me. An everything is for her boyfriend. If he doesn't like it he tells her then she doesn't like it.

Is this how it's suppose to be or are my friends right and I should really get emancipated?

An if so could I with out her consent to it?

I have no job. I have been looking for one though. It's very hard to find one. I don't have a car and my mom wont drive me there all the time and I don't get my liscence till sometime in August if I even have all my hours by then. Which is kinda hard to obtain to the fact of she never takes me out driving. So finding a job I could walk to around where I live is hard. And most places want experience. Which I don't have. I'll be seventeen April 12th.

[Happy Trails]

You are right that your parents need to file the petition. Even if they did a judge isn't going to agree with it as you can not support yourself.

I would think counseling could be beneficial.

[LawResearcherMissy]

Lawdy, child. I'm sorry.

No, you cannot be emancipated. It is not meant for kids to get out of their parents' houses. It is meant for minors who, through extraordinary circumstances, find themselves paying their own rent and bills, buying their own groceries, and essentially living as adults in all the but the legal sense.

Emancipation grants a self-supporting minor the rights of adulthood insofar as allowing them to sign contracts (to sign leases, open checking accounts, and the like). It's rarely granted.

Do you have other family that can help you get proper medical care?

[Nameless94]

No. The only other familt I have in this state are my grandparents and she has them convinced that I don't need it.

What if I were to obtain a job. Would it be possible then?

[panther10758]

You obtain the job make sure it pays sufficent enough for self support then come backand see us

[cbg]

Even if you were to get a job it isn't going to help with the fact that in your state, the law requires that your parents file the petition. If they will not do so, then you cannot be emancipated no matter how many jobs you get.

[525601minutes]

Can the OP call CPS on her own behalf? or perhaps a friend can call and place a complaint. This does seem like a situation that needs some intervention

[cbg]

I don't know of any reason she can't call on her own behalf.

[Nameless94]

What is OP and CPS?

[panther10758]

OP = Original Poster

CPS = Chilid Protective Services