<p>lgriffin, welfare fraud is a serious crime. All you can do is for financial aid is to file a FAFSA truthfully showing all the income -and essentially that is going to be a document than it itself would expose the fraud -- so I would be surprised if your parents are going to be willing to sign off on a FAFSA. If you file a FAFSA, it has to be truthful, or else YOU will get in trouble as well -- and its a federal offense to make false statements on the FAFSA, so you definitely don't want to risk hiding something that can and will be easily discovered. </p>
<p>So basically, the situation leaves you seriously messed up as far as financial aid for college. Your mom's best course of action is to talk to a lawyer right away, in order to try to put things right. YOU haven't done anything wrong, but your mom has and it puts you in a difficult position in terms of applying for aid.</p>