<p>Is it better to use child support or child in house for financial aid?</p>
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<p>What does this question mean? If you get child support, you don’t have a choice about whether to use it or not when completing the financial aid forms.</p>
<p>We pay child for a child that lives in our home (it’s complicated). Financial aid questionare is asking us to choose one option</p>
<p>Is financial aid for a child in question?</p>
<p>If it is, then you have say that a child lives with you.</p>
<p>Are you saying that you pay child support to an exspouse, even tho that child is LIVING with you? </p>
<p>If so…and FAFSA wants you to either say that the child lives with you …or you’re paying CS for the child to live elsewhere?</p>
<p>It sounds like you have to indicate that the child lives with you, because that’s true.</p>
<p>Why are you paying CS for a child that is living with you?</p>
<p>I did state that the child lives with me AND that we pay child support. I was hoping someone could tell me which choice would give me a better chance for more help with financial aid.</p>
<p>maybe it’s alimony, not child support. Some states still have alimony.</p>
<p>Correct me if I am wrong, but if you state that you pay child support for the child, then it implies that you are non-custodial parent and therefore it is your ex-spouse information that needs to be used for FAFSA, not yours. Which will not be true.</p>
<p>Since you are using your information, then you will have to state that the child lives with you and don’t mention child support.</p>
<p>It’s not alimony. Like I said it’s complicated. I just need to know if anyone can help with the question. The dependent questionare is wanting us to pick one of the options.</p>
<p>We are custodial parents.</p>
<p>Then the answer is obvious - state that the child lives with you and don’t mention child support. By definition custodial parents do not pay child support to non-custodial parents (even though due to your unique circumstances you do).</p>