My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: north CarolinaOk so here is my story. Let me first start off by saying, I am currently 17 years old and live in North Carolina. My father, who is married to my step mother, has primary custudy of me and I visit my mom the first 3 weekends out of the month. Reason for emancipation: my father has a terrible drinking problem and when he drinks it's almost like world war II in our house. Him and my step mother fuss and fight (fist fight) and then try and explain to me that every healthy marriages have fall outs and fuss and fight, but I ain't buying that. My stepmother is very malicious and manipulative, she can take any story and flip it and make you look and feel as if your the bad guy and you have not even did anything wrong. So my first thought on being emancipated was about 2 years ago. My dad had been drinking that night and he got mad at me, he proceded to call me bitches, whores, and sluts. He tells me that "He don't give a **** what I do, I'm jus gonna be a big slut like my mom anyways" and throws the phone at me and tells me to call her to come pick me up cause he ain't want me here no more and when I turned around to walk away he grabs me by the neck and starts chocking me. Of course I didn't call my mother cause I knew she would get very upset and take matters into her own hands which would probably end up getting her into alot of trouble so I told no one of it but instead wrote a letter to my friend which my mom ended up finding and reporting it to DSS. Long story short, DSS came and did nothing but put him on a "Safety plan" and restrict his drinking which obviously didn't work. So let's fast forward to the present, so about a week ago I spent the night with one of my friends, so when I came home my dad had been drinking and was furious that I had stayed off with my friend witout his consent (which was a complete lie, I asked him and my stepmother both, how else did I just leave with them sitting right there on the couch?). Anywho, he started with the name calling, bitches whores, sluts, and liar. I tried to just ignore him so I walked in my room and started to pick stuff up off the floor. He then bust in my room and is all in my face yelling and screaming at me, at this point I'm scared out of my mind, I know how he gets when he is drunk and I didn't want to be caught in the middle of his rage yet another time. So he told me to leave, like he typically does, but this time, I'm actually brave enough to do it, I'm not the same scary little girl he chocked 2 years ago. So I put on my boots and walk out the door. So I'm walkin down the street, wait let me change this, highway. My first insticnt was to call my mom, I pulled out my phone and called and let I ring twice before I hung up remembering that I could get her into alot of trouble just by being in her presence when it's not her visiting days, yet alone staying the night with her. So I called a friend to see if I could stay the night with her but she didn't pick up and by that time it was bout 9:30, dark raining, and I was walking down the highway by myself scared to death and my mom was already calling back to see what was wrong. I answered the phone and told her to just come pick me up, she will see me walkin down the highway before she gets to my house and I'll explain everything when she got there so she said she was on her way and we hung up. So I continued to walk. About 5 minutes later I hear someone calling my name, I turn around and it's my dad running to come get me. So I started running to get away. I didn't know what he wanted and by the looks of it, I didn't want to find out. So I sprinted, and in between the sprinting, walking, and catching my breathe, I managed to fall and scratch up my knee and hip and hand before my mom picked me up. Long story short, the next morning the sheriffs were at my moms house to pick me up. They told me that I could either go with them back to my dads house, or they would arrest my mom, for kidnap, and arrest me for....I don't know but they would. So I decided that I would just go back to my dads house and wait for them to send the DSS people to talk to me. When they got there it was two women, one stepped outside to talk to me while the other stayed inside and talked to my stepmother (my dad was at school) and then we came back into the house. My dad arrived from school about 15 mintues later and they talked to him about what had happened the night before. He lied, like usual but like that even mattered seeing that my stepmother had already used her manipulative powers on them. She flipped it to seem as if the while thing was planned. I jus ran away cause I want to stay with my mom because she let's me do what ever I wanted. That I do drugs over there and drinking and basically just slandering my moms and I name. Then it was my dads turn. By this time I just couldn't take anymore of the bad mouthing lies so I walked out of the room, laid down, and cried myself to sleep. I didn't talk to anyone for the next couple days. I have been physically and emotionally abused, bad mouthed, and just lied on and this has truely deeply hurt me mentally. It's this not reason enough to be emancipated? So if I were to be emancipated, here is my living plan. Well my mom pays 550 dollars a moth in child support, and said that she would be happy to pay it to me when and if I were to be emancipated. So that is an income and if that is not enough I could pick up a part time job while I continue my schooling. Housing woud be provided by my aunt, she said that she would be more than welcome to rent out the extra room in her house to me. While I'm there I could look for my own apartment. Do you think this enough for emancipation? Seeing that I only have 8 more months anyways until I am 18 years old. Please help, any information that you send to me is well appreciated. Thx for all your time and support
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Ps-*Okk so question, I am 17 years old and live in NC, my dad has primary custudy of me and I visit my mom the first 3 weekends outta the month. Anyway, long story short, if I was to run away from home and move all the way to New York with my aunt would this be considered kidnap?

