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[quote=Anonymous]Our 24-year-old will be heading to graduate school out-of-state (in NJ) for at least 5 years.

She's going to live in graduate student housing there for at least one year but then will likely have an apartment where she will be living permanently. She'll visit us, but that's going to be where she lives. She has her own car and will be living on a graduate student stipend which won't let her live in luxury, but will allow her to pay rent and other bills, and buy groceries. She'll have her own health insurance through the school.

I think it makes sense for her to transfer her driver's license to NJ and register the car there, and have her new home be her permanent address. But many of my friends, and my daughter herself,  seem to think that she should keep our home address as her permanent address and keep her ID here, since she is still a student. Also she may be moving apartments every year or so.

Which makes more sense? I checked the New Jersey DMV site to see what the rules for students were. I understand that for undergrads, their home address stays their permanent address until they graduate, which makes complete sense to me as we are still very much supporting them, they come home over the summers, etc. But it seems a little silly to me for an almost 25-year-old to still be using her parents' address as her permanent address.  [/quote]

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