We don’t know that. We don’t know that their mother didn’t waive her right to alimony and child support in order to move the children out of the country. My nephew’s mother did that. She waived child support (it wasn’t very much) so that she could move to another state and change the visitation and custody ordered by the court. She agreed to a visitation schedule that was ‘summer heavy’ and agreed to pay for some of the holiday travel. She actually made more money so it was likely that if she had remained in the same city she might have had to pay the father child support.
But this is a child wondering how to get around contacting the father for CSS or other required financial aid filing documents, not how to restructure the divorce orders. She doesn’t want contact which may limit some of her college options. Yes, @thumper1, I think she would qualify for instate tuition in Florida because that’s the father’s residence, but because Florida puts so much of the state aid in Bright Futures if she doesn’t qualify for that other FA is limited. ‘Getting’ to pay $7k in instate tuition is great if you have the $7k.
This is going to be a very complicated FA filing. The child lives with neither parent. FAFSA says you then use the parent who supplied the most support. Again, a tie at none. Then you use the parent with the higher income. She doesn’t know because she doesn’t know what her father earns.