Emancipation

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Specifically, from one's parents.

Does anybody know how this works? My fiancee is having trouble getting financial aid because her parents refuse to help by either cosigning a loan or filling out a FAFSA (federal aid form in the US, for those elsewhere, required for all aid at most places). Apparently, you have to be 24(!) before you can be considered anything other than a dependent, or married, or emancipated somehow...

Many thanks to anybody who can help at all, the bill is due very soon and we just found out today that her parents aren't helping...

[Al B. Sure!]

i had the exact same problem... it's hopeless sorry. best you can do is have the college consider her independent and maybe they'll give her a little more scholarship money.

[Al B. Sure!]

wait fiancee? if you two are married, she'll be emancipated... want to move up the wedding?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

It'd be nice, but we don't have the money to do that, either....

[yavoon]

50$ bux and elvis thinks otherwise

[Elok]

Don't have the money? Elope! I mean, big weddings are about as much fun as a prostate check anyway; they wear out the bride and groom, they always cost more than you plan on, and I personally have never had a single ounce of fun at a wedding or reception that didn't involve laughing at the shenanigans of drunk guests trying to dance. Or just file for a civil marriage and go through the bloody ceremony later.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

The King is dead...

[Koyaanisqatsi]

It's more the long-term costs (insurance, expenses, etc.) that are the problem, not the ceremony.

Although we'd both like a ceremony, too, we could live without it.

[Harry Seldon]

How would the long term costs be more married than single? You can get married by a justice of the peace for fifty dollars in some places. You'll probably never get the money for a big wedding if you wait and from the sound of it your fiance's parents aren't going to be helping. Same thing happened to my wife and I but in reverse; we couldn't get married until after she received her final pell grant because with my income we made about $12000 which would have kept her from receiving a majority of her money.

[MichaeltheGreat]

That's sort of a chicken**** angle on financial aid, since one's you're 18 you're an adult for all purposes but buying hooch and handguns.

Emancipation of minors is a state law issue, and only applies if you're under 18, and other states and financial aid, etc., may not give a ****. The intent was/is to prevent well off parents from scamming the system when they otherwise could/would pay to put their little darlings through college.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Thus the problem...they could, they just won't.

[Harry Seldon]

What fantastic people! Sounds like my wife's family:

"Since you're getting married, we pooled one hundred dollars for the wedding. Are you going to rent a suite of rooms for us if we come down? No? Well, then we're not coming! Good luck!"

Sleazebags. They'd rather eat a bullet than help their kids out. We've had to bail her brother and sister out of several jams. When her sister began to become mentally ill and we couldn't take care of her like the situation warranted, their mother told us that maybe we should try to find a home for her because they didn't have the time or money to help.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Oh, I won't go into the many issues I have with them, but....yeah.

[SlowwHand]

http://www.larcc.org/pamphlets/children_family/teen_emancipation.htm

[Japher]

boot to the head!