I am 16 years old and I recently moved in with my father. Before this I had to live with my aunt for a hear because my mother passed away but I didn’t feel very comfortable where I was and with my aunt so I decided to move in with my father here in NJ. My father hadn’t been a huge part of my life and the only things i had about him in my head were mostly negative but I decided to see if he had changed at all. Long story short he hadn’t changed there were multiple instances where he got into a argument with his girlfriend, he was sometimes drunk and if he was it wasn’t only worse. He’d throw things, not things over, yell and curse at her. One time she even said to me that he was much more mean when I wasn’t here. One specific time they got into a fight his girlfriends son came out and started arguing with my father and they got into it. My father threatened to stab him, got a knife and ended up accidentally cutting his girlfriends hand. There was a little blood and the son called the police multiple times but every time they all denied anything happened and told me not to say anything. My father always talks terribly about my sisters and other side of the family and he won’t admit it but he doesn’t want me around them and kept me from them last summer. This is my reason for wanting an emancipation but seeing as he won’t even allow me to work I’m not sure how that could even happen if I don’t have any income of my own. Is there anything I could do? If somehow I convince him to let me get a job, where should I work and how long would I have to save up before I can go about the whole process?