I'm writing on behalf of my girlfriend as well as myself. She is the one for which this information is needing to be obtained. She is 17 years old and a FL resident. She will turn 18 in the later part of October of 2007. She currently lives with her mother and her mothers boyfriend; the only family she has in FL. The rest of her entire family including her father, and myself, all live in Ohio. She is continuously verbally and emotionally abused by her mothers boyfriend to which her mother puts no stop to. This has been an ongoing situation for all nine months that I have been involved with her. She is nearing the end of her junior year of high school. Once her senior year begins at the end of summer, she will have approximately 6-8 weeks (depending on when classes begin, the information is not currently available yet on the schools website) until her 18th birthday. Once she turns 18, she is planning on leaving FL and returning to OH. However, we are uncertain if her mother, who has sole custody of her, can prevent her from leaving, for any reason, once she is 18. She intends to move in with her sister (same mother, different father, 19 years old). If her mother cannot prevent her from leaving, she wants to propose leaving a few weeks early to enable her to attend her senior year in OH in entirety so as to not have the complication of transferring schools in the middle of a grading period and run the risk of grades not transferring properly (which has already happened to her once in her high school years). She wants to do the right thing by staying in school. If she cannot be prevented from leaving once she is 18 and her mother agrees to let her leave early to start the school year in OH, what would be the procedure for her to be able to register for classes in OH? Would her mother have to register her in OH because she is still under guardianship or could she register on her own? Would her mother have to sign off guardianship (emancipation) etc.? PLEASE help us; please help her! Any information, whether it is directly or indirectly related would be helpful and very much appreciated. Thank you to everyone who reads and responds to this.