Emancipation Help

hello i have a friend in florida who is 15 and wants out of her house. her parents treat her like crap. her mom has told her to her face that she is a worthless piece of trash and she wishes that she had aborted her. this is a straight A student in honors programs in school. she wants to just leave but i have talked her out of that. she wants to come live with me in KY but due to the fact i am over 18 i know i would get in trouble. she doesnt want that to happen. i would make sure she went to school and had everything she needed but i cant do this unless she is emancipated by the courts. there are NO FEELING between us. she is like a lil sister to me. what can i tell her and do for her to help her? will she have to wait till she is 16 in Nov.?

She can't leave when she turns sixteen. That would be called "running away". She gets to pick where she gets to live when she turns eighteen.

Florida's emancipation laws require the petition to be filed by the minor's parents.

thanks for the answer. i guess ill let her know that. i mean her mom was gonna kick her out anyways and make her live with her boyfriend but thank god i got her away from that cheating lying jerk. so if her parents signed for her to get emancipated, could she move to kentucky legally

It will take more than her parents filing the petition she must

. Have a job that pays sifficent income for self support
. Have a place to live (not with BF, friends etc) Her own Apt
. Have a plan for independent living
. Have a plan for her continued education

As I have stated many times, I am not aware of a rule in any state that a minor cannot emancipate if they intend to have housemates or roommates. (Emancipating to live with a boyfriend or girlfriend is a separate issue.)

My reference (although poorly worded) meant living rent free. If OP was paying rent to family or friends and still remaining "self supporting" this he/she meets emancipation requirments. However inmany cases (unknown about this one) the OP thinks living with friends, BF, GF or other family members rent free or at insanely low rent still meets criteria. Most judges, I feel, would frown on this and deny petition

Whatever the arrangement, the court can be reasonably anticipated to want to know that the minor had a plan for a stable living arrangement, and that the minor can afford to support himself if necessary. It's not necessarily going to be a disqualification that the minor has a safe, appropriate, stable living arrangement with cheap or even free rent, but the minor should nonetheless expect to have to establish that he or she can afford pay rent at market rates "just in case" things don't turn out.

You are correct in implicitly noting that many (and probably most) "cheap" and "free" rent arrangements are not particularly stable.