Applying for Financial Aid After Parents' Divorce

[katierigglee]

My question involves a marriage in the state of: Indiana.

I got married in August of 2011, we were legally divorced in December of 2011. I am trying to fill out my FASFA for college, but I am unsure about some things..

Am I now emancipated? I am 18, I will be 19 in March of 2012. I live with my parents.. I would move out but I do not have the money to support myself. The FASFA website says that I am a "dependant" student. I will be paying for my own college tuition. Is there anything I can do to become an independant student if I am not already by law?

Thank You!

Katie

[aaron]

If you're eighteen, then you're "emancipated" in the sense that you're legal adult. If you're asking if that means that you were legally emancipated by a court order when you were a minor, no it does not. For financial aid purposes, from what you've told us so far, you're going to be treated as a dependent student. That has nothing to do with your parents' divorce judgment.