Emancipation in Florida: Parents That Are Willing

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of:
Florida.

Hello, my situation is that I am 16 and my parents are completely willing to sign the petition for my emancipation. My mother is going to speak to a lawyer next week about what she can do because she would like to let me go but she doesn't want to be legally responsible for me once I leave. I have read all of the requirements that a minor would need to be emancipated, but is there any other legal way to make this situation easier? My parents are willing to go let me live with my family in a different state but as I said, they just don't want to be legally responsible for me. Is there any option besides emancipation where it would be easier for me and my parents?

How much easier is the situation if both of the parents are willing to sign the petition?
Also, how long does the emancipation process usually take in Florida?

I'd appreciate any bit of actual advice, please don't just repeat the requirements to me because I already know them. Thankyou.

Also I'd like to add in that I do Virtual School so that even after I move I will be continuing my education without any problems.

If you know the requirements, then you also know that living with relatives doesn't count as SELF SUPPORT, which is what emancipation is all about.

I'm asking if there's anything else that let's the parents sign off their legal responsibilities from the minor.

I apologize I didn't make my question very clear and I shouldn't have used the word emancipation. What can a parent do in Florida to give up their legal responsibilities for their child? They just want me to be able to move out.

IF you are legally emancipated, then your parents have no further legal or financial responsibility for you.

However, it takes more than your parents signing off on it for legal emancipation to happen. That is just the first step. You still will have to convince the judge that in the event that the people you go to live with throw you out, or are collectively hit by a bus, or get transferred to Belgium and cannot/will not take you with them, you will still have the ability to support yourself, 100%. That means rent, food, clothing, utilities, transportation, medical care, insurance, school fees and supplies, and all the other incidentals of life, all paid for by you and you alone, alone and unassisted. Simultaneously with going to school and keeping your grades up.

You will need to submit a budget showing actual figures, not estimates or guesses, and provide the judge with a plan for independent living that is NOT dependent on someone else.

It's not as easy as just getting your parents to sign a form and then going off on your own to live with someone else.

If you are NOT legally emancipated, then your parents are legally and financially responsible for you until you turn 18 whether they, or you, like it or not.

Okay so there is absolutely no legal way for my parents to just give up their rights to me? I suppose I should tell my mother there's no use in seeing a lawyer then, she's convinced there's some legal way for her to just give me up though. I'm trying to convince her to just let me go and not drag the law into it but she just doesn't want to be responsible for me.

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Okay so there is absolutely no legal way for my parents to just give up their rights to me? I suppose I should tell my mother there's no use in seeing a lawyer then, she's convinced there's some legal way for her to just give me up though. I'm trying to convince her to just let me go and not drag the law into it but she just doesn't want to be responsible for me.

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Nope.

Parents cannot just leave their children at the curb when they are done with them.

You have to be able to support yourself. I see nothing mentioned about a job or a plan showing how you are going to pay rent, insurance, food, or utilities.

Basically, your parents want to help you run away from home. That isn't legal.

No. Outside of legal emancipation, there is NO way your mother can be free of financial and legal responsibility for you until your 18th birthday, and not one minute before.

I hope that is quite clear.