My question involves educational/juvenile law in the State of: New York
My parents have agreed that they will allow me to emancipate myself from them, however, we do not know how to go about doing it. I want to emancipate myself in order to be considered independent by my college. I have been living in New York for more than a year and I had all but one of the necessary requirements to qualify for residency at my New York college; the one requirement I didn't have was that I am still considered dependent (even though I pay at least 80% or more of my expenses) on my parents who live in Florida. I do not want to take out any more student loans and I would like to be eligible for more grants/scholarships available only to in-state resident students.
Do I actually have to go to court to become emancipated? Or am I able to submit some kind of consent form to the court to be processed? I just would really like to know the whole process of it.
Also, if assuming I were able to get emancipated, how long will it take? Once emancipated, do I have to wait until I can submit my FASFA again to be considered independent by my school?

This has nothing to do with whether the OP is an adult. It has nothing to do with taxes, either (at least not directly). His/her post was all about trying to get in state resident status at a public university to get the lower in state rates. When the students parent's are out of state the student has meet certain requirements to establish NY residency on his/her own to get the in state rates. NY requires, among other things that the student be "emancipated" from his parents, with emancipation in this context meaning financially independent from his/her parents. Consider this explanation from the 