<p>Im 19 and a freshman in college. 2 nights ago I was kicked out of my house by my dad. Currently I'm moving around coach hoping from friends, but this can't last much longer. The last thing my dad said to me was, "I never want to see your face again". So I believe chances of reconciliation are zero. Aside from my concerns on where I will be sleeping and food. I'm more worried about financial aid for next fall. Would I be eligle for override? My parents aren't refusing to pay, they kicked me out, in a way estranged. I know I wouldn't qualify as independent status by normal guidelines, but my case isn't normal, atleast I hope not.</p>
<p>Happens all of the time, and usually some sort of reconciliation occurs. If it gets to where you are forced to move into a homeless shelter, you might get a professional override. Read the FAFSA guidelines, but it’s a professional judgement issue, and usually time shows which way it goes. Most of the time if it doesn’t resolve itself, parents won’t pay or provide infor, student has to take time off from college and try to make a go of it one’s own and give college a back seat. Until your age 24, college is something that is up to your parents to provide, and if they don’t, you find a job.</p>
<p>Tenz, it will take a LOT more than just having your dad ask you to leave to get a dependency override. Think of it this way…if all it took was a parent asking a child to move out, lots of students and parents would go that route.</p>
<p>In addition, you are over 18. You are not a minor. As Cpte said, if you are in a homeless shelter, and have no way to reconcile with your parent or another family member, you MIGHT get a dependency override…no guarantees as this is professional judgement done by each school on a case by case basis.</p>
<p>Now…if there is abuse, and you are willing to file a police complaint, that is one thing. If this is a disagreement about lifestyle, religion, girlfriends/boyfriends, curfews, whatever, that will probably not get you a dependency override.</p>
<p>Have you considered having a neutral party discuss and help you resolve whatever issue with your parent?</p>
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Are you saying they still will pay? Or that this is “more” than not being willing to pay? </p>
<p>Either way, what kind of school do you attend? Did they already pay for the year? If it’s a CC most students work and pay for school themselves.</p>
<p>Ok. I already got kicked out to clarify. My dad took me off his insurance. Im couch hoping and dont know where I will be living next week-month. I meant they wont pay bc they kicked me out and packed all my belonging. They told the manager of the apartment that if they see me that im not welcome near the house and he will call the cops if he sees me around there. Im going to normandale community college and im planning to transfer to the U of MN. I dont think reconciliation is possible, Its not a litte arguement where the parents r like ■■■■ n come back. This is serious I’m on my own. I work like only 20-30 hours about 600 a month income. </p>
<p>It takes time to get an override,because, yes, these things happen more often than one might think. It’s not just you that has to think that reconciliation is not possible, but the school and the system at large. Just getting kicked out, as terrible as this is, is not the only factor that is examined. You need to truly have no place to go, and reduced to going to a homeless shelter and your parents STILL will not help you. A year or so of that, and MAYBE you will be considered independent. Even that is a professional judgement.</p>
<p>I suggest you go to your financial aid office and ask them specifically what the officers there will take as evidence that you are truly thrown out enough to get a professional judgement. That is really what matters, as these are the folks that will be making the determination, and who knows what their exact criteria might be. I’ve told you what it usually is needed, Down and out, and still they won’t lift a finger is what the generally does it. And time. A lot of angry parents may not care if kid is couch surfing, staying with friends, but if they find out you are dumpster surfing for food and living under a bridge, part of the homeless community, they just might reconsider So, often you have to go pretty danged low before a school will say that your parents are truly out of your life. But, again, it’s your school, your fin aid officers that make this call. So ask them what they need to see.</p>