Can your parents make you move?

[kmw]

my step father and my mother keep threatening to force me to move to california with my dad(which i tried out and was very neglected there and treated like a 5 yr old and i am 16 yrs old). can my mom legally force me to live there? oh and another thing is, my father isnt even on my birth certificate as my father (its blank) so idk.

what are my options?

[aaron]

Should you choose to petition for emancipation, Virginia's emancipation law provides:

Any minor who has reached his sixteenth birthday and is residing in this Commonwealth, or any parent or guardian of such minor, may petition the juvenile and domestic relations district court for the county or city in which either the minor or his parents or guardian resides for a determination that the minor named in the petition be emancipated. The petition shall contain, in addition to the information required by § 16.1-262, the gender of the minor and, if the petitioner is not the minor, the name of the petitioner and the relationship of the petitioner to the minor.