<p>So you’re saying that if a student’s family is transferred to another state for a job, their child will always have to pay out of state tuition if the child attends the new state school if the transfer occurs after the child has already started college?</p>
<p>Let me use a concrete example or hypothetical:</p>
<p>Dad is transferred senior year of high school. Child remains with Mom at home state so can graduate high school. Child goes away to college for freshman year, say to a private college, to make it easier. Mom moves in with Dad at new home in new state.</p>
<p>Child finishes freshman year at private school, and decides to attend state school of parents’ new home. Child has never lived at that home for more than a few weeks, during school breaks. Mom and Dad live in that state continuously from August to May and beyond, during child’s freshman year away.</p>
<p>If child wants to transfer to state school of parents’ new home, he has to always pay out of state tuition, even though the parents claim him on their taxes and they have been residents for a full year before the child starts first day of school at state school as a transfer student?</p>
<p>Wow, how’s that for a convoluted hypothetical? If you can follow that, you are ready for a career in law.</p>