I Need To Be Emancipated

I live in Florida and My parents were divorced when I was about a year old and my mom moved in with my step-dad when i was two and got married when I was six. Ever since I can remember he's been very controling.He tells everyone that I'm his daughter because my real dad moved to Indiana when i was 8 and my step-dad told him never to come see me again. My step-dad is very degrading, he calls me a slob, stupid,fat (i weigh 125 and im 5'5) he tells me i look like a whore if i wear a pair of heals with jeans and a t-shirt. He tells me that my dad is a deadbeat n that he doesnt give a care about me at all. And if i talk about my dad and say the word "dad" he gets really upset and yells at me saying that he's not my father. I'm terrified to live in my house even though he's never laid a hand on me, he threatens to. He's always finding things to yell at me about! My mom and him fight all the time n he's constantly telling her to leave but she won't. I don't live in a very stable living enviroment and I cry a lot, I get depressed at times and feel like everyone hates me because i dont really feel any love from anyone at home. My mom tries but she cant do much because she gets it twice as worse from my step-dad so she cant do much about it. I've told my mom the way I feel about him and she doesn't listen, she just sits back and watches him do whatever he wants. I know my mom will never sign the petition papers so is there anything I can do? I have a place to stay, I make good grades in school, I have a car, and I'm about to get a job. I really need some help so it would be greatly appreciated if u could!!! please and thankyou!!

Under Florida law, your parents must initiate the emancipation process.

so thats it? There's nothing I can do, even in a situation like this?:confused:

You can wait till your 18 then move out

I'm trying to get emancipated too. I'm ALMOST 16 but I still don't know how to do it. If you DO find anything out please, PLEASE let me know. Thank you
and I'm sorry about your wasted childhood. Mine wasn't much either...

There is only one answer in Florida. If your parents will not file the emancipation petition, then you cannot be emancipated.

There is no answer other than that. No exceptions, no loopholes, no ways around it. Parents file, or no emancipation. Period.

My mom tries but she cant do much because she gets it twice as worse from my step-dad so she cant do much about it.


Actually, she can do a lot about it. It's spelled D-I-V-O-R-C-E, and she's played that game before. If you are BOTH living under these conditions, then you are BOTH living in an abusive environment. Unfortunately for you, you are not only the victim of his issues, but also the victim of your mother's lack of action to improve, alter, or escape the situation. Emancipation isn't going to be an option for you without her approval. So you might present your arguement to her in real black and white terms: "if YOU want to stay and be abused, that's your business, but you are making ME a victim too." Sometimes when people have lived in an emotionally abusive relationship over time, they loose sight of the fact that they are being abused at all - to them it's either too intimidating to try to change it, or too tiring, or they accept that "it's just the way things are". Remind your mom that today's situation doesn't have to be tomorrow's situation for either of you.