<p>Has anyone ever done this succesfully? My child is currently 17 and someone told me I had to do it before she turns 18.</p>
<p>My aunt lives in MD and I wanted to know can I give her guardianship of my child to get instate tuition?</p>
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<p>Is it easier for us to “move in” with her to get instate tuition?</p>
<p>It depends on the rules that a specific school makes and how it checks out and enforces them. THose schools that count on OOS tuition differentials and have a lot of OOS students tend to be stricter. Many of them require that the PARENTS are in state for a full year and any guardianship issues have to be court ordered (abuse or other outside issues) and not simply because a parents wants the kid to get those advantages of the state tuition. So it might fly, and it might not. Look at the website of the school in question, get the name of someone at the school that would be knowledgeable how this works and talk to the person, and see if you can find others doing the same to see how things go with this. </p>
<p>When I lived in the midwest, there was NO problems (and here too, I have been told though not a personal experience) to pay local tuition for community college. They did not bother to check anything. You just gave a local address and checked yes for resident and you got the state/local rates. Not so for the big U a half hour away. Many who moved away and then left their kid with friends or family there and then the kid wanted to go to Big U for in state rates were very quickly shut down regardless of guardianship papers filed while in highschool and the kid graduating from an instate school and the whole nine yards. The college wanted to see where the parents lived and paid state taxes and parent driven guardianship designations were not worth the paper they were written on. Even the local high school districts would not accept them and would charge tuition once the parents were no longer tax payers in the district, so subterfuge was often used in those cases, successfully because the kid was already at the school and there was no reason for the school to check on them . But with college, or in any transition, the addresses, and such statuses are often times checked, because that revenue is important. Also for schools that may have instate quotas, an state audit could result in problems if a school goes over, and when such an audit is done, forget about having parents assigning their kid to someone in state. Heck, anyone can do that, if no relative available, some for a fraction of the tuition differential.</p>
<p>If you are “moving in”, you are also filing and paying taxes in that state, right" In addition to dealing with another state in the picture. If you are seeking to deceive, this is not the place to be asking for advice.</p>
<p>Why does your child want to relocate to MD? Are you in VA now? If so, your child currently has excellent in-state options. Moving for the senior year of HS just to go to college at a public U in MD doesn’t make a lot of sense. Even after that move there is no guarantee that the student will be admitted to the target university.</p>