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Comment by softwaredoug

2 days ago

Is this going to create some weird incentive for me, a parent of a college kid, to go 4 years unemployed traveling the world?

Honey, think about how much money the divorce will save us on tuition!

  • TBH My parents got divorced my Freshman year, and as much as it sucked, I did somehow get more Federal financial aid out of the deal...

It creates an incentive for you to get married, so you are the relevant family instead of your parents.

  • Is that how "family income" in this context is calculated in the US? That until I'm married I count as being part of my parents' family but as soon as I marry I have my own? No age restriction or consideration whether I live with my parents or anything?