CSS Profile and Divorced Parents with Unequal Assets

thumper1
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 14:16:51 +0000

@maryrich

The colleges will determine your student’s financial need. They will subtract any need based aid you receive from the college from your bill.

You will be responsible for paying the balance. The colleges honestly don’t care whether the two parents agree on how this is going to be paid…or not. The bill needs to be paid.

So…if the one parent doesn’t plan to pay, the parent who IS planning to pay needs to make sure affordable schools are on the application list.

Is there “recourse” if the other parent doesn’t pay in divorce cases? Well…you can go back to court and try to get the money. But recourse from the colleges is unlikely.