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To NikkiiL, kelsmom, thumper1, kayf, lje62, and all of you who think marrying someone with children should automatically mean you help put those children through college, I say why?
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I never said the step parent should pay for college for the step kids. I DID, however, note that the step parent IS contributing to the household expenses for the family. Presumably the bio parent and the step kids are benefiting from this. And if the bio parent is gaining housing costs, utilities, food, clothing , etc., perhaps it might free up THAT bio parent's income/assets to pay the college expenses for their children.
The reality is that when you marry, you become a member of the FAMILY. EFC is an expected FAMILY contribution. But there is no law anywhere that requires that any bio parent or stepparent pay for college costs. However it is an expectation in the financial aid computation formulas.