I am currently 17 living in NJ i'm a junior in high school who gets A's and B's and am currently in the process for applying for jobs. I am living with my Father his girlfriend my sister and my half sister. My real mother has been divorced from my father since i was in about 1st grade. I have no problems with my mother but my father on the other hand is a different story. My mother pays hundreds of dollars of child support for me and my sister each month and we see none of it. The refrigerator is almost ALWAYS empty, we are sometimes timed when we take our showers, and because his girlfriend is never home I am stuck doing all the household chores that a mother is supposed to do.Also, my father treats me and my 12 yr old sister like men. He has us lift and move heavy objects which could cause future damage to our bodies such as moving large cinder blocks for the driveway or lifting computer or t.v screens. In addition, if my father needs something done, no matter how small it is, it must be done even if we are in the middle of doing homework. When he asks us to do something while doing homework and we reply that we are busy doing homework he will tell us that he does not care and that whatever he wants us to do is more important than our school work. The only thing my father does for us is cook or take us out to dinner and when he does, after we're done eating he can't even clean up his own plate! But anyways my boyfriend, he's 18, told me a while back about this emancipation thing and now that my father is trying to make me get a job because he thinks i should be supporting myself i think now i want to go threw with the whole emancipation. If i do, i will be to live with my mother or i have permission to live with my boyfriend, which will probably be where i go, if this works.My boyfriend lives about 20 minutes away, will start working at his job in construction around February and is currently in the process of getting another job to help support us both when this emancipation happens. But my problem is my father is extremely strict does NOT like my boyfriend anymore , after 6 months of me being with him, so i need help with finding the easiest way of making this work.. any suggsetions?

