<p>Hello everyone.
I am reapplying for my federal aid.
I got married this weekend but my marriage liscence hasn't been filed yet & probably won't be filed until next week. When doing my fafsa do I write single or married? </p>
<p>I will also be changing my name, do I update my fafsa once I do that as well? </p>
<p>Though this is for a specific school and an earlier year, the advice and extra infor in this is thorough IMO. Make sure you read up on current year rules and what your college has to say about any of this too. inancialaid.boisestate.edu/timely-tips-archive/getting-married/</p>
<p>As you can see, a school might decide not to give you any more money just because you your EFC is lessened and you are independent. It’s really up to the school, you know You would be entitled to more Direct loans and if this makes you eliglble for PELL, that would work, but don’t think that your school will redo your package to meet new need. What a school does with its own money is its own business. Just make sure that this does not mean you can get LESS, if your spouse’s 2013 income. both earned and unearned (what parents gave him) and assets you BOTH may have, is up there I don’t know if the school will ask you for assets today or as of the day you originally filed the FAFSA with your spouse’s accounts used. </p>
<p>The rec is not do change your name right yet, from what I can see. </p>
<p>So I apply as married (even though I am not technically legally married until I file the liscense)?</p>
<p>You can “get married” in a church or wherever but not really be married if you do not get a license from the state. When you and your partner go to the town hall, fill out the paperwork and get your marriage license, you are officially married. Not before.</p>
<p>I would not worry too much about the name change, it is much easier to do that when filing your marriage license then do it later; of course, you don’t have to change your name (and both people are allowed to change their name - my friend’s last name would have died out except she and her husband both took their last names with a hyphen).</p>
<p>You say that you are REAPPLYING for financial aid. Does that mean you already filed FAFSA for the school year beginning in 2014? Or are you applying for the first time for that school year? You really need to look at your school website as to how this is going to be handled at your school THough the federal entitlements, PELL and Direct Student loans are straightforward, the other things are totally dependent on how your school choosed to handle such changes in status. A school that does not guarantee to meet need might not increase your awards a dime, other than what you get from the federal entitlements which have nothing to do with the school. Even schools that guarantee to meet full need can have exceptions to this , like transfer students, WL students, international students…and change in status students going from dependent to independent. So you should check with your financial aid office after you read up what the school website has to say about the matter. </p>
<p>“I got married this weekend but my marriage liscence hasn’t been filed yet & probably won’t be filed until next week. When doing my fafsa do I write single or married?”</p>
<p>??</p>
<p>What does that mean? How did you get married without applying for a marriage license? what state does this? </p>
<p>Are you saying that you applied for a marriage license, the officiant signed it, but it hasnt yet been filed with the courthouse? or what?</p>
<p>Sounds like you’re married.</p>
<p>Yes I have the marriage liscense all filled out and ready but have not filed It at the courthouse. From what I have read (please correct me if I am wrong) if I don’t file it than I am not considered to be legally married. </p>
<p>My school (Palm beach state college) doesn’t have any info on this on their website and I tried calling with no answer. </p>
<p>Your official should send in the signed paper work today. Or if he gave it back to you, you send it in today. Then file as married. </p>
<p>You are married the day you return the paperwork so you file your fin aid that day. Have you done your FAFSA both ways to see if it is an advantage to be married? Make sure you are not losing out filing one way or the other.</p>
<p>We can’t send it in this week because of our work hours. </p>
<p>How do I file both ways? </p>
<p>You don’t FILE both ways. You run the estimators and NPCs both ways. Your school does have an on site–go to the fin aid section , NPC that you can run the numbers through. </p>
<p>What kind of aid have you been getting from this school anyways? It’s a community college that does not appear to meet full need at all and most aid is limited to federal and state entitlements. If you have some school money as well, you do have to talk to them about it. Basically, does your future spouse bring any extra income and assets to the situation? What’s he got on his tax return for last year? Is he a student too? </p>
<p>I don’t know what state you live in, but in most you are married even if the license hasn’t been returned to the courthouse (usually filed by the officiant, not the couple). You won’t use your ‘filing date’ as your anniversary. Your official marriage date for insurance and other (tax) purposes is the date you were married. A birth certificate may not be filed for several weeks, but the baby was still born on the birth date. People get married on New Years Eve all the time and it’s still official on 12/31, not when the court house opens the next week. If you never file the license, it doesn’t mean you aren’t married or are divorced, just that you didn’t file the right paperwork.</p>
<p>Most states also have a window where a newly married person can change a name for no fee. If you miss this window, you have to go through a name change procedure, usually in county court and usually for a fee.</p>
<p>Treat all paperwork as ‘married.’ Change your name (indicating maiden name if asked). They will know it is you because of your SSN. Don’t forget to change your name at SSA because otherwise your tax return will be rejected.</p>
<p>The way it works is that a marriage license is valid for the marriage to be performed within 60 days, in most of Florida. So if you get the license and get married in that 60 day time period, the marriage date is that date you had the ceremony with the licensed clerk, judge, minister etc signing off. You don’t just apply for a license and return it to get married, you gotta do the marrying. Have you been married yet? If so you have up until 60 days (check your county rules) from the date of your license app to file the thing, and the official marriage date is the date you actually got married. If you only have the license, you still gotta get married and until you do that, you are not married. Once you get married, you have to return that paper work within that window, or the marriage is then invalid. </p>
<p>I have the liscense filled out, I got married on Saturday at my wedding & haven’t filed the paper work yet at the courthouse. </p>
<p>What is NPC? How do I get to an estimator? I have been getting Pell grant and took out loans. I have been with my now husband for 4 years and have a two year old son with him. I have been considered a dependent under my parents because of my age and because I don’t work(so I can’t claim that I support my son financially) I have been living with my husband for almost 3 years now as well and he is our only source of income. He is a student as well. </p>
<p>Filled out? Is it signed by an official–judge, clerk, minister. My H is a pastor. He never gives the license back to the couple. I’m not sure why your official didn’t handle this for you, but if the thing is signed, just mail it in and be done with it. If you’re married on a specific date and you fill out your FAFSA after that date, you’re married. End of story. </p>
<p>You’d better check the fine print on your marriage license. Are you sure that you have the entire certificate? There is one part the pastor/justice of peace or whatever files with the county and the rest goes to you (like the form for changing your name with the social security office.</p>
<p>I have performed marriages in 4 states, and all 4 of those states have a 3-5 day limit for receiving the license back after a marriage is performed. If the completed form is not reported by then there is a hefty fine, or even jail time (in WI). The celebrant is usually the one responsible for mailing it in. Having accidentally not sent one in a number of years ago, I now make point of mailing the form on my way home from the church.</p>
<p>Your marriage is legal the moment the official who performs the ceremony signs it.</p>
<p>Then your wedding date was Saturday. You have 60 days after the license was applied for to have whoever married you (has to be some with that authority from the state) to turn it in, for the Florida counties I know. Usually the minister, or clerk, or whoever does take the license and turns it in, from my experience, but that could vary. If the person who married does not have that authority, then you have to go through the process by the clerk of the court in your city hall, and that becomes your valid wedding date of record. </p>
<p>You go on your school’s financial aid site. On your left hand side, there is a click on to NPC for that school. </p>
<p>You realize, I hope, that any monetary gifts given to you in 2013 by parents are considered income to you as are any money your husband got that year in terms of given money. The difference is that your parents do not have to fill out the FAFSA for you, nor your DH’s parents for him to get aid. But because their income is not reported, anything they gave to you in 2013 is unearned income. The same will go for the next year’s FAFSA in terms of what they give to you this year, and again, the same for your husband. </p>
<p>To the OP. Take an hour off of work ASAP and get this marriage certificate recorded. It’s ridiculous that this is not a priority for you at this point. Just get it done.</p>