Can You Get Emancipated to Live With a Grandparent

Im 15 years old, 16 in November, and I live in California.
This April I was living with my sister and her dad who was rude and treated me like a slave, and my mom was living with her boyfriend and my other two younger sisters. Then cops found that my sisters dad had meth and guns in his house, so we immediately uprooted and went to live with my mother and the three others living in a one bedroom apartment.
My mom has gone through several rough patches in life. First when she lost custody of me when i was two and she was seventeen, then again when her and my sisters dad split up and she left me to raise her three year old daughter. I raised the currently eight year old girl for half my life.
The events in my life caused me to grow up very quickly.
The school that I got put into is an AG school and has nothing for me. Im miserable there. I came to spend the summer with my grandma and have decided that I need to think about myself for once. My own well being. The school here has a great culinary program for me, I have a room instead of a section of the couch, a closet instead of a cubbyhole, and a job in a restaurant doing what I love.
I tried to explain to my mother that I love her and Im proud of what shes recently done for us but she didnt understand and in her email back she said, and I quote: "This year has been so hard for me and I expect your ignorant self to respect that."
But it was a really hard year for me too, I lost EVERYTHING.
My grandmas going to try to talk to her, but people are suggesting emancipation.
I dont really want to do that, but do I have a choice?
What do I do?

You are not going to be emancipated. If you can't talk your mom into letting you stay at grandma's then you'll have to go back.

(who currently has legal custody of you, do you know for sure?)

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Quoting mmmagique

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You are not going to be emancipated. If you can't talk your mom into letting you stay at grandma's then you'll have to go back.

(who currently has legal custody of you, do you know for sure?)

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currently, my mother does

Then it's up to her.

Sorry.

Emancipation is rarely ever granted in CA, and usually requires that the minor already be living on their own or nearly so, and that emancipation is preferable to foster care for any number of reasons.

In your case, as you were informed, living with grandma will be at mom's discretion.