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>>Filing the FAFSA, then talking w/ a financial aid officer at the schools where my son has been accepted? Are there any schools that might be more understanding of a situation such as ours?>>
You can try...but I agree with Nikki...it's unlikely that the school will give you any special treatment because your spouse won't contribute. The FAFSA computes an "expected FAMILY contribution". Your husband is a member of your family. As you noted, you have benefited, and so has your son, from his income and assets. No parent (even bio ones) are REQUIRED to contribute to college expenses...but the FAFSA formula (and the Profile ones too) except that parents will contribute to the college educations of their kids...including step parents (who are contributing to the HOUSEHOLD income).
Your situation is not unique...and I doubt that it will qualify as a special circumstance in the college's eye.
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