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<p>Your grandparents would have to LEGALLY become your guardians. Still…it is now 2007 and even IF you did this, it would not matter for the FAFSA you are completing which uses information from 2006 tax year. And the reasons are simple…many students would move in with less than wealthy grandparents, and just say that their wealthy parents are not going to pay. That is NOT permitted under finaid application guidelines. Your parents are your parents for finaid purposes (in the case of divorced parents, the custodial parent is the only one who reports on the FAFSA as noted by SBlake), and there are very few ways to get around that. If your grandparents become your LEGAL guardians in 2007, you can use their information NEXT year. Oh…and for the record…it doesn’t matter what your mom does on her taxes…even if she doesn’t declare you as a dependent for 2006, you still MUST use her information when completing the FAFSA as she is LEGALLY your custodial parent.</p>