<p>Okay, I'm currently lost with my situation. </p>
<p>When my parents dropped me off at FSU, it was our understanding that they would help me with the costs of college. When I was dropped off, I was left about a year worth's of room and board, some money for the rest of the tuition for this semester that bright futures doesn't cover, and some furniture in my apartment. They told me that they would be glad a part of my expenses, as long as I had good grades and had a job to help with my part of the payment, they would see it through that I graduate debt free. When they dropped me off they wished me luck...</p>
<p>AND THAT WAS THE LAST I EVER HEARD OF THEM.</p>
<p>I have been trying to contact them since getting my job early september. When I did not get back any emails or any responses from voicemail messages, I began to worry. I didn't have any relatives I could contact or know any of their friends/neighbors. Yesterday I was lucky enough to get a phone call from my dad's boss that delivered what seems to be grave news to me, my parents in the past few months got a divorce, found new jobs, and moved elsewhere, and abandoned everything they had, including their own son. My family's house got sold and new people moved in. </p>
<p>I don't understand.</p>
<p>We have been on good terms, and suddenly they just went up and out. They had me very worried and now it's like they disowned me.</p>
<p>What I want to know is how to go about my education from here on, or how to find my parents. I'm very fortunate to have been some money and a job, but that would only last until spring semester.</p>
<p>While I suspect this may be a ■■■■■ given that it is a first time poster with a fantastical story, if it is the truth I would recommend that you go to the FSU legal clinic and lay out the whole story for them. They should be able to help you find your parents and help establish what your rights are in regards to them.</p>
<p>Are you 18? If not, there are legal issues here.</p>
<p>Did you parents change identity? I mean, can you not even trace where they are?</p>
<p>This situation is dire enough that I doubt an online forum will be much help, other than to offer our utmost sympathy.</p>
<p>Is there someone at the college who can advise you?</p>
<p>At the very least, you should go to student services and seek counseling, and not because there is anything “wrong with you,” but because this is an extreme situation in which any human being would need a lot of support and help. </p>
<p>There are practical issues, as you say, but the emotional issues are also huge.</p>
<p>Bizzare story. I feel for you. Hopefully there is a logical explanation. </p>
<p>Try sending a letter or a postcard is even better, like nothing happened to each of your parents at your old address with the words: Address Service Requested. This will get you their new address. </p>
<p>When you get one of their new addresses, show up during Thanksgiving break, like nothing happened Hey mom, what’s for dinner? </p>
<p>They owe you an explanation. I doubt it’s as bad as it seems right now. It must have been pretty hard for them. A little humor from you might go a long way.</p>
<p>Something similar happened to me in the early '80s. Not exactly the same, but similar. If this is a true story, you have my sympathies. </p>
<p>In my case, I had to take a semester off and work for my own food and shelter. During that time I was very close to my grandparents (both sides) and they helped devise a plan to get me back in school. If you really don’t have any relatives, then I agree with lololu. Try the legal clinic.</p>
<p>This is a ridiculous story.<br>
There are no relatives or family friends?
And yet the dad’s boss calls the child away at college to say that the parents are gone?
If this student was actually worried about the parents, they would have called the police.</p>
<p>In two months they divorced, sold their home, got new jobs and moved? No house could sell that fast in Florida. How would a boss know your phone number or why would he/she even bother to call? How did he/she know your parents weren’t in touch with you? What kind of business were your parents involved in? I call “■■■■■”. If not, call Nancy Grace right away. This sounds like a mystery she’d be interested in covering.</p>
<p>If not, go to the Dean of Students office Monday morning and tell them just what you told us. They can advise you and assist with certain things. They can also help direct you to any free legal services that might be available through the law school.</p>
<p>It is also unbelievable to me that your parents could divorce, sell their house, close on it, AND have new folks living in the house in a span of 10 weeks. The market in Florida is not moving that fast. AND If they abandoned their house, foreclosure moves slowly and many cases have been temporarily halted due to inconsistencies on bank signatures. </p>
<p>You have no extended family?</p>
<p>Again. If true, go first thing Monday to Dean of Students.</p>
<p>I recall a discussion I had with my son about this once. He actually thought we’d do this: drop him off at college, wipe our hands, and say adios. For good! He was shocked to learn this wasn’t the plan. “You mean I can back?” he asked incredulously. (He has since graduated and moved back while working part time jobs.)</p>
<p>I’d bet your parents gave you a scare, but Thanksgiving dinner will be waiting for you.</p>
<p>Forgive my low post count, but I’m not a ■■■■■.
Im also 19 and a legal adult, in charge of pretty much my entire life, I just depended on them for a few thousand dollars of tuition. </p>
<p>I will try the adress trick, to try and get their new adress.</p>
<p>The boss knows my phone number because I worked for him during the summers in high school to make a quick buck, we are good friends. </p>
<p>Two months is a little supicious to sell a home, but chances are this house was on the market and they didn’t tell me. </p>
<p>I will consult a legal clinic, but I’m pretty sure they haven’t broken any laws. To be honest, I was thinking getting a private investigator to find stuff out.</p>
<p>EDIT: I do have grandparents from my mother’s side that are still alive, however they are difficult to get in touch with since they retired to another country.</p>
<p>wow. IF this happened, that’s crazy. The court where your parents got divorced must have a record of that. The court papers might be confidential (a lot of family law proceedings are, but it really varies among states and counties) but if not they may have some information. There may also be information in the county recorder of deeds or elsewhere about who bought the house, who the real estate agent representing your parents was, etc.</p>
<p>If I were you, I’d also consider the possibility of foul play and investigate with that in mind. Or maybe they were spies!?!</p>
<p>Your parents probably don’t have any obligation to help with your education and it sounds like you understand that, but it makes complete sense that you’d still like to hear from them.</p>
<p>I agree with the advice to contact a legal clinic. You have lots of questions that need to be answered. In addition to leaving you high and dry for college, do you have health insurance, car insurance? Where will you go at Thanksgiving or other school breaks? This isn’t all about college…lots of layers to the onion here. No siblings, or former neighbors or friends of the family with whom you could speak?</p>
<p>Just to play along with the “house sold” scenario … it could have been a rental home, or the parents could have rented it out a home they owned. Rentals can move pretty fast.</p>
Hey mom, what’s for dinner? </p>