I am 15, and my parents currently have 50/50 custody over me and my younger sister. We spend one week with my dad, and then one week with my mom, etc. My dad, under my parent’s divorce degree, is not suppose to be drinking while we are at his house, but he is an alcoholic and has been drinking for the whole 5 years that my parents have been divorced. My dad is very unreasonable, and is always taking his anger out on me for things that hes mad at my mom about. He was previously abusive with me, not my sister, but has not been recently. I can’t talk to him about anything, because he is always accusing me of being a liar, and doesn’t usually let me leave the house. If we have snow days, he comes up with any excuse he can to not let me leave the house, while he lets my younger sister do whatever she wants. I am really sick of having to deal with him, and would like to live with my mom full-time. The judge said that i would be able to make this choice when my parents feel it’s appropriate, but my dad went to court to have it put in the divorce degree that I cannot choose for myself until I am 18. Both my mom and I think that this is very unreasonable, and that I should be able to choose now, but there is no way that I can sit my dad down and talk to him without making our relationship absolutely horrible. My dad always thinks that anything I say is something that my mom told me to say to him, which is never true. I have been wanting to move out of my dad’s house since the 5th grade when we first started going from one parents house to the other on a routine schedule. I want my mom to have full custody of me, but I don’t know how it’s possible if it’s written in the degree that I can’t change that until I am 18, but at that point it will be useless because I will be away at college. I am wondering if there is anything else I can do so my mom has full custody? And, would there be any consequences if I were to have one of my friends help me move all my stuff from my dads house to my moms house while my dad is not home, and then just tell my dad that I am not talking to him anymore? Would my sister have to come with me? Currently, she has no idea that any of this is going on. She is starting to not like it here, but I do not think she is to the point where I am, where I cannot stand it anymore. If i left and she still had to spend dad’s weeks with him, he would probably be very mean to her, because I would not be here for him to pick on. What should I do to make this as easy as possible for both of us? My dad has always effected my school-work, by doing things such as not signing papers that I need to turn in, not giving me time to complete my homework by making me do chores the whole night, and not driving me to mandatory school functions. I take extra classes after school, and he has just recently decided to pick me up from those so he would not have to pay my mom eight dollars a trip, but makes me wait at the school for an hour after I get out of my last class. I also take half of my classes at the advanced science and math center in my district, and have not been able to attend one after school function for that school because my dad refuses to drive me. I need to attend these things for the chance of getting scholarship money, and he has not helped one bit, and has already made it clear that he is not going to help me pay for my college education. I need to get out of here so I can do the things that I have to and would like to do with my life, but cannot think of any easy way. Is there something else I can do?