College financial aid/emancipation issues.?

I know two people, with similar problems.

One, a 21 year old whose parent flat refuses to give her W2 information and social security number to him. This prevents him from filing a FAFSA. Without this information College is not an option, she knows this, she prefers it that way.

Does he have any way he can go to college? legal emancipation? Go to court and force her to give him this information without somehow spending more money than he would get in financial aid? The way I read it, marriage, or military service are the only ways he can go to college before 24, but I can't believe this to be true.

The second person is 18, and was just kicked out of her home. She now won't have any of the money expected from her parents, while they keep her from getting any grant money. If she was 17 she could get legal emancipation, but from what I can see she cannot anymore. Does she have any legal options to go to college before 24? Again I know of marriage and the military.

In the case of the one student, it is not a matter of the parents not paying. By not giving the information for the FAFSA it prevents the student from even taking out many loans!

Working you butt off.

Sounds like both people are victims of the parents selfishness - but in reality parents do not owe their children a college education, and can refuse to pay if they so choose. This means that the potential student must go about it another way by either working or looking for alternate funding.

The 21 year-old is an adult....he or she can get her own Social Security number by calling the toll free number. As for her W2, he can't force her to give him that - but it won't affect his application. Being an adult, her income wouldn't count anyway.

With the 18 year-old, also an adult. Parents don't have to provide schooling. She needs to do it on her own..... She doesn't need to get "legal emancipation"..... that is for minor children. She is no longer a minor...She is free to do what she wishes.