My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Ohio
I may not have the choice of emancipation in Ohio, I am unsure of that. However, in this situation I need whatever advice I can get.
I am a seventeen year old female who lives with her mother. My mother and father are seperated, and I have not spoken to my father at all until very recently. My mother literally denies him his visitation rights, claims he 'abandoned me', and refuses to let me have any contact with him. He emailed me awhile ago and I finally have been talking to him without her knowledge. I want to be emancipated from my mother, or at the very least not live with her. I don't want to live with my father either, but on my own. I can support myself easily enough. I would not want to leave unless the conditions at home were bad.
My mother has bi-polar and is unmedicated for it. She is prone to violent mood swings, and she neglects taking care of me. She doesn't work, clean, cook, or even provide me with the smallest amount of money. My grandmother buys my clothes and schools supplies, and whatever I need. She cleans the house whenever she can. The house is a mess, no matter how many times I clean as well. I take care of everything in the house, including dishes, cooking, etc. We have so many cats though that it is hard to keep everything clean. They eat out of the dishes and steal food off our plates. They poop and pee everywhere. My mom doesn't want to get rid of them because they are her pets. She also flicks her cigarette butts everywhere, leaves dirty dishes and clothes laying everywhere. She never cleans or fixes food, and she neglects to buy even the necesseties, such as toilet paper.
I have a home, a nice one, where I can go to and live, paying a small fee for rent. I need to know if there is any way I can get emancipated on my own, or if I will have to ask my father to sign the papers, or if I will even need my mother's signature. The last threads I read were from 2004-2005, and it was stated that Ohio had no emancipation law. I was wondering if it had changed in recent years any. If at any way possible, I do not want either of my parents to have custody of me, as I do not know one of them and the other is...well, my mother. Can you give me any advice, even if I cannot get emancipated at this time? I have ten months before I'm eighteen, but the circumstances are so bad that I cannot wait that long to leave if I can leave.

