I'm 15, and I live in Arkansas. I want to be emancipated because I have to live with my father, who's an alcoholic. He's verbally abusive when he's drunk, and he threatens to be physically abusive. It's overall a terrible situation. If I have a place to go or can take care of myself on my own, would I be able to get emancipated, or do I have to wait until I'm 16. I hope I don't seem like a whiny teenager here.

