Is This Emancipation Worthy

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Florida

My mom has been going off the walls for years now, but it's just getting to a point where i cant handle it anymore. Shes thrown me out of chairs and thrown things at me and threatened me many times in the past two years. Every morning i wake up to her screaming at my side about something random that she thinks is all my fault but in reality i don't have any idea what shes talking about. My grades are falling drastically because i constantly end up driving to school late, and crying because she starts some big conflict that doesn't make sense at all and usually end up with her isolating me by taking away everything i have that i can use to contact people, i.e. phone, computer, car (me paying for all of them as well), and blocks home phone calls from my best friends. She's told me quote: "GET THE **** OUT OF THIS HOUSE" but then a minute later she goes oh well we'll see how far you get till i report you as a runaway and you go to jail or counseling. And for a while shes been verbally abusing me with things like "how did you end up so ****ed up?" and "what did i do to make you grow up so wrong, why can't you just be like your sister", "your stupid and ugly and fat" and just immature things a parent should not say to destroy someones confidence. I just feel strangled and i'm to the point where if i say one wrong thing now, or she comes home upset, she'll lash out on me or do something to just kill my mood if its good, and then punish me to where I'm sentenced to doing absolutely nothing every single day. I can't take this anymore, and its not just some stupid teenager not liking they're parent and the rules they enforce.

I am 17, birthday coming up soon, to be 18, September 14th.
I know i don't have much time left to be here. But my grades are dropping so low because i just cant focus anymore. She's taken everything in my life i enjoy away and replaced it to where all i hear is "your so ****ed up sarah just give up" over and over. I want out. And i want to move and finish up my Junior and Senior year somewhere else. She's already ruined my ability to get into a nice college by destroying every load of confidence i've ever had into nothing.

How long does Emancipation take though, because if its more then 2 months then i guess its really just not worthit.

If its less, i'd be moving in with a friend of mine up in Georgia that has known about my mom and has heard what shes said many times. I'll get myself a job and give him money even though he said i didn't have to, and I'll happily pay for my health insurance and go to school every day. If theres more to it, i'd like to know. And if me moving to Georgia wouldn't work, I would like to know why as well.

Theres also another problem about telling the lawyer about this but i'll write that out once someone tells me if what i have here is a good enough reason.

Thanks to anyone who can help me..:(

Welcome to the real world on September 14.

You think it's tough now ... just wait.

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So what i have isn't a good enough reason?..

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Quoting sjayp

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So what i have isn't a good enough reason?..

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Every teenager has abusive parents.

She's almost broken my ribs, i had a chair leg bruise on my chest for weeks.. And did nothing about it. It's a new situation every day.

I'm pretty sure all parents don't tell they're children they are pieces of shit, and then treat them like one as well.

But if every parent is like mine, then i guess i know very little.

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Quoting sjayp

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She's almost broken my ribs, i had a chair leg bruise on my chest for weeks.. And did nothing about it. It's a new situation every day.

I'm pretty sure all parents don't tell they're children they are pieces of shit, and then treat them like one as well.

But if every parent is like mine, then i guess i know very little.

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And why did you not mention physical in your FIRST (presumably the most important) POST?

Because, i don't like to take things to another level unless i have to. And that has passed now. There is no proof of it. And i can GAURANTEE you right now, that if i tell a lawyer that, even with confidentiality, i don't want her finding out i told. Whether or not i was to press charges isn't the matter. I don't want to put her in jail i just want to leave. I don't want to hurt my family, and i don't want my little sister, who my mother takes amazingly great care of, to lose her.

I care about the people around me to much to hurt them.

I know emancipation can be a rather painful process. But i don't want her knowing that i told anyone that because i just want to leave without it being brought up.

I have plenty of money saved and still more coming in. I also have plenty of volunteer hours 400+, and good managers that will put in good words if i were to apply somewhere new. But my mom can access my money and has before a few times, and will claim that i owe her hundreds of dollars. Or some shit like that. Along with saying everything i'm saying is a lie.

And i don't want to deal with that. I know what i'm saying and what has happened is true. But i don't want to reck other peoples lives in the process.

If i'm going do destroy my moms life, my little sisters life, and change how my ENTIRE family looks at me in the process of getting emancipated, i'd much rather just deal with the verbal/physical abuse for another 7 months.

There is NO level of physical abuse that is "good enough" for emancipation. If you are being abused, the answer is to contact police or child protective services and let them do their jobs. One option they have if they find abuse, is to remove you from the care of your parents, and if that happens, you'll live where they tell you to live and with who they say you'll live with (could be anything from a group home, to a foster home, to another family member if one is qualifed).

Emancipation is about self support, all about self support, and unless or until you can prove to a court that you've got self support dripping out of your eyes, no other factor will even begin to matter. The bad grades alone, even if you could prove self support, are enough to sink you.

If you are being abused, call child protective services.

If you wish to avoid abuse on this forum, put all relevant facts in the first post. We are not fishermen hoping that we finally land an important fact.

Well thanks for the info guys.

Appreciate your help in my understanding of this.