Need help on Emancipation

[Stephanulu07]

I'm 16 and in 4 months I will be turning 17, for a while I have been dealing with a lot of family issues to where I can't deal with it anymore on my 16th bday my grandmother was going to get me emancipated but things got better now its all falling down the drain again... i don't know what to do I see moving out being the only way to deal with it. But i also have 2 little sisteRs but they are fine there, I have a place where I can go but i don't know if the courts would allow it, are there rules on who you have to live with once you're emancipated I need help ASAP so i know what to do...

[aaron]

Virginia's emancipation law provides:

Any minor who has reached his sixteenth birthday and is residing in this Commonwealth, or any parent or guardian of such minor, may petition the juvenile and domestic relations district court for the county or city in which either the minor or his parents or guardian resides for a determination that the minor named in the petition be emancipated. The petition shall contain, in addition to the information required by § 16.1-262, the gender of the minor and, if the petitioner is not the minor, the name of the petitioner and the relationship of the petitioner to the minor.