Can You Get Emancipated if Your Parent Moves Too Often

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Florida (where i am) and Illinois (Where i want to be)

Okay so, I am 16 years old and currently am living with my mother in Florida who holds custody of me. However, she has an addiction to moving: I have been to 9 schools (2 high schools and the rest primary education) and I have moved 32 times. Recently, I was going to school in Chicago as a sophomore, and was fully determined to stay for Junior and Senior year to graduate within the IB Program which would guarantee a full-ride scholarship to most colleges as I get all A's or B's. Yet she moved me back to Florida and is wanting me to go to yet another high school, that does not have this educational opportunity for success. If I had to change schools yet again in my most important years it would be detrimental to so many aspects of my life. I was wondering if it was possible if I could be emancipated, as I have family in Illinois who are willing to take care of me until I graduate high school who are willing to pay for my expenses and have a stable home environment. I would really appreciate some advice on this, because I can't find any information on scenarios relating to this one, and I don't know what to do.
Help is much appreciated,
Thank you

Emancipation means you're able to manage your finances and you have the means to live apart from your parent/s.

That's not the case, so emancipation is off the table I'm afraid.

Perhaps a polite sit down with mom about granting them temporary guardianship would work.

I went to three different elementary schools, two different middle/junior high schools and two different high schools while moving through three different states. I consider that it broadened my horizons considerably. :victorious:

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I have family in Illinois who are willing to take care of me until I graduate high school who are willing to pay for my expenses and have a stable home environment.

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Emancipation means that YOU are able to support yourself and pay for ALL of your OWN expenses, at the normal market rate. The minute you need someone ELSE to help put a roof over your head or food in your belly, you cease to be a candidate for emancipation. Have you ASKED mom if you can return to IL and live with family there? Or have those family members approached mom and discussed the possibility? With mom's permission, it can be done without the need for emancipation (which you apparantly don't qualify for).

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I went to three different elementary schools, two different middle/junior high schools and two different high schools while moving through three different states.

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Pffffft. My nephew has already done that through four different COUNTRIES, and he's only 13.

You're not even remotely a candidate for emancipation. For one, in the state of Florida, your PARENTS must file the emancipation petition. For another, even if your Mom DID file, it would be rejected immediately, because you must already be living separate from your parents, and be supporting yourself 100%. That would include paying all of your expenses, market rate rent, health insurance...everything.

If your mother and your relatives reach a mutual agreement under which you live in Chicago and go to school there, fine. If she says No? Game over.

(Also, graduating from the IB program doesn't even remotely guarantee you a full ride to anywhere. You appear to suffer from being a legend in your own mind. You might look to that before the Real World jumps up and slaps you across the face. It's a terribly rude awakening, and you won't like it one bit.)