estranged

If you are under 25 and have no contact with your parents, you might be able to apply as an "estranged student"., external This means your parents' financial situation is not taken into consideration.

Art Garfunkel says he’s rekindling his bond with estranged Simon & Garfunkel bandmate Paul Simon, after decades of on-and-off tensions.

“Marriage gives spouses the benefit of many legal presumptions and protections with regards to each other’s property and affairs. An unmarried partner, on the other hand, is at a much worse position than even an estranged child or sibling in a situation where the other partner has died or has become incapacitated,” said Joseph Fresard, elder law attorney at Simasko Law in Mount Clements, Michigan.

In late 19th century, Sioux Falls, S.D., for example, the now-defunct Cataract House Hotel was a hotspot for divorce tourism, housing affluent estranged spouses while they waited out the state's then-90-day residency requirement to file for a divorce.

Chinitz added that the reinstitution of fault-only grounds would "bog down" the already overwhelmed family court system as estranged couples air out their deeply personal grievances and spar over proving one party's wrongdoing.