<p>cmbmom, my ex will be contributing more money for college than I will be; unless we start counting hours, we’re unlikely to come up with a clear winner for where spawn spends the most time. So next year, I should think that we’d best go with the parent who provided the most support, if college tuition/R&B counts as “support” (and I suspect it does).</p>
<p>I’ll likely be the one doing most if not all of the catching and ferrying to/from school, packing, organizing, and dealing with all the details of the kid going off to college, but actual time spent in the kid’s presence (absent the car rides to/from school) will still be an even split. Expenditure of cash will not be, however, by thousands of dollars. </p>
<p>We’re not going to qualify for any Federal grants or anything; the best spawn’ll get are the unsubsidized Staffords, which we do want him to take. If it weren’t for that, we wouldn’t bother filing for financial aid at all.</p>