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  1. #1
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    Default Emancipation in Florida

    This may be a totally daft question, but I am 20 years old and have been completely independant from my mother since January of 2003. Financial aid considers her income as well as mine, because I am under 24 years of age, therefore I am ineligible for assistance, because combined we make 'too much'. Is there any way that I can emancipate myself even though I am over the age of 18? Is there anyway for financial aid not to consider my mothers income since she has not supported me for 2.5 years? Im really peeved that I can no longer recieve assistance based on the criteria that my mother is 'supposed' to be contributing to my college education when she is not/can't. It is totally ridiculous that if I were just 4 years older I would not have this problem

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    Default Finacial Aid & Parents Income

    No - but you may be able to convince your college, if you press the issue, that you were independently supporting yourself before you enrolled, and that your mother's income shouldn't be applied.

    At some graduate schools, for financial aid purposes the colleges expect parents to contribute to children's education until the children are thirty. Nuts?

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    Isn't this a form of age discrimination?? They assume because I am under 24 I must be recieving assistance from my parent. If I were over 24 or had a child, this wouldnt be an issue. I really think this is discrimination.

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