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Originally Posted by mac03
NOTE: this does not apply to FAFSA, just IRS tax filing.
FAFSA to avoid reporting your parents income you ahve to be 25 or older, marries, legally emancipated, (orpahaned, legal gaurdians dead.... etc)
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That's not always true. I'm 21, single, and not
legally emancipated, yet declared as an independant for tax and student aid.
To become so, contact your finacial aid department and ask for a "dependancy override". You will have to document, with testomony from others, that there are special circumstances that should affect your dependancy status. Once documented, your case will be heard by a commettie that decides this sort of thing.
From what the origional poster has said about his circumstances, he should not be declared independant.
Good luck.