Please help. First a little back ground. I left my wife and moved to Tenn. November of 2005. my 3 kids wanted to stay with their mother. Since leaving the kids have stopped going to school, smoking cigarettes, drinking and doing drugs. Their mother would not try and stop them. I tried to talk them into moving out with me, but they would not.
In June of 2007 their mother was arrested for contributing to. And child neglect. The 2 youngest Brenda 16 and Ryan 15 came to live with me. My oldest son Cory is in jail for a numerous charges.
Since coming to live with me in Bay Pines Fl. they have come to the realization that they do not have a choice but to live with me. Their mother’s charges have been dropped, but she does not have a stable place to live and may be moving to AZ.
My concern is that Brenda does not want to live with me anymore and wants to be emancipated. I am at my wits end and almost agree to go along with this. She hates it here and wants to go live with her friend, who lives at home with her parents, and they are telling her she can. Brenda does not want to live by my rules and is still doing drugs at school. I have tried everything, grounding, drug test, letting the school officials know this is going on. But nothing has changed.
What steps do I as the parent need to take to have her Emancipated?
Thank you.
desperat father

