<p>Strange question I know. I have 2 moms as in the title, and my biological mom makes about 35000/year. My other mom makes about 70000/year. My problem is that she will not pay for my college. She gets all her money from the casino because she’s native american. Most of it is blown on alcohol and other useless things. I dont really have a good relationship with her. Neither does my mom bio mom either. </p>
<p>What I want to know is when I apply for financial aid will her 70000/year she makes be factored in? I would be really upset if I dont qualify for need based aid because of that.</p>
<p>If she is your legal parent (e.g., she adopted you - I assume from your post that she is not your birth mother), then her income will be factored in. Your situation is no different than that of a father who refuses to pay for college.</p>
<p>If she did not adopt you, she has no legal responsibility for you and her income should not count.</p>
<p>Of course, you also cannot claim “Native American” heritage from her.</p>
<p>Unless you live in Massachusetts where gay folks can legally marry, then I think you will not need to report your non-biological mom’s income as your parents are not a couple from a strictly legal sense. I wonder how folks that have “civil unions” like those which are legal in Vermont will have to handle this?</p>
<p>She has not adapted me and they are not married. I was more worried about colleges checking who lives in my household or something. If they saw an adult living in the same house as me that makes 70,000 I thought they would get suspicious. Or are they not allowed to check addresses like that?</p>
<p>In the eyes of the financial aid world (FAFSA, anyway), you live in a single parent family. Only your bio mom’s income and assets count.</p>
<p>Now-- if your bio mom is getting child support or other support from your bio dad, then that has to be included as part of your bio mom’s income.</p>
<p>You should call the financial aid offices of colleges to find out the exact way to go about this situation. It’s nice that people on this internet forum are responding, but you cannot be sure that any of this info is accurate until you contact fin aid.</p>
<p>You really haven’t any worries unless you are to be going to University in Mass. or So Cal. You can honestly not claim your non biological mom and sorta have that be it, you know? </p>
<p>It is very good of you to ask these questions now. Good luck with your University hunting and all of that, my man.</p>
<p>It won’t even matter in Massachusetts. While they legally could marry in Massachusetts, if they didn’t, the income should not count. It’s no different than if your mom lived with a man who isn’t your father and isn’t her husband. The income doesn’t count because there’s no legal relationship between you and your mother’s partner. (Massachusetts doesn’t recognize common law marriage, so if there’s no marriage certificate and there has been no ceremony, there’s no marriage.)</p>
<p>So don’t let this issue stop you from applying to any of the fine institutions of higher education in Massachusetts!</p>
<p>To put your mind at ease, take a look at the FAFSA and Profile, and you’ll see whose income you have to report.</p>
<p>Well Ill probably be staying in MI because OOS tuition is a *****. Unless colleges like to give me more money because Im OOS then Ill stay In-state.</p>
<p>They don’t file a joint income tax, do they? </p>
<p>I’d say this is one of the very few perks of our society not allowing gay marriage…if society won’t give gay couples the same rights as married hetro couples, then they can’t expect the same responsibilities.</p>
<p>Her income shouldn’t be figured into your aid at all. Don’t mention it to the college either. As far as they are concerned, she’s just a roommate living in the same home.</p>
<p>You mentioned being concerned that they would check on who lives in your household – financial aid is not determined by the income of the people who live with you. It is determined by the income and assets of the people that have been determined to have an obligation to support you – your legal or adoptive parents. domestic, unmarried partners (whether gay or not) don’t count and neither do people that live in the household (including lovers, partners, aunts, grandparents, etc).</p>
<p>Did anyone see that she wrote her bio Mom - “she is getting child support but I am more concerned with my step moms income”. </p>
<p>If there is a bio Dad somewhere that is paying child support and they were never married , does someone know if bio Dad should help with her college ??? </p>
<p>Pupp : Does your bio Dad claim you on his taxes ???</p>
<p>“If there is a bio Dad somewhere that is paying child support and they were never married , does someone know if bio Dad should help with her college ???”</p>
<p>“Should help” isn’t an issue that the financial aid formulas deals with.</p>
<p>Under FAFSA, it’s only the custodial parent’s income and assets that count. Plus the step parent’s income and assets, if the custodial parent has remaried. The non-custodial parent doesn’t figure into it at all (except to the extent that the custodial parent receives support, and then it’s included in the custodial parent’s income).</p>
<p>Some Profile schools will require a non-custodial parent statement, and some consider the income or assets of the non-custodial parent.</p>
<p>Since bio dad does pay child support all schools that accept the CSS profile will require his income and assets as they will be included in calculating his EFC. Since there is child support meaning that there is contact it may be very unlikely that he will get a waiver.</p>