[quote=TuVu]
Don’t know if you’re aware of it, but even if you disown your kid or stop claiming him/her as a dependent, the kid’s parents have to file FAFSA until the kid is 25 or older, unless the parents are too disabled to work. I don’t think I saw it on this blog, but on another, where a poster whose parents were upper middle class, was shown the door at age 18…”You’re on your own, son,” evem though he had good grades and was in no way a troublemaker. He had friends in a similar predicament. They couldn’t get help from the feds or the state. This particular poster worked manual/retail jobs till he was 26, then was able to apply to FAFSA on his own. He got a graduate degree and, in his early 30s now, is doing just fine.

Thanks again.[/quote]

This can’t be true. We just filed my fiance’s FAFSA two weeks ago and she is 23 and her parents did not have to do a thing. She qualified for the max available for graduate loans. Perhaps it is different for undergrad?