<p>She probably won’t qualify for in-state tuition in California since she didn’t graduate from a CA high school, even though you live here. You can look at the UC and CSU websites for their specific criteria.</p>
<p>As for financial aid, what matters is not physical/legal custody, but which parent your daughter lived with more than 50% of the time during the year prior to the filing. Since your daughter will be a senior, she’ll file FAFSA in January 2011. If she’s still in Nebraska and has spent the 2nd half of her junior year + the first half of her senior year at her father’s house, then her father would be considered the custodial parent for FAFSA and he would file. The same would be true for any Profile schools; the father would be considered the custodial parent.</p>