Giving up guardianship for aid.......

BelknapPoint
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:08:25 +0000

The FAFSA is set up to capture the income and assets of the custodial parent, not necessarily the parent who is supporting the student. The non-custodial parent can still provide health insurance, a car and insurance, and a whole lot of other support, including tuition, as long as it isn’t paid to the custodial parent as child support and it really won’t show up anywhere.

Not completely accurate. At the very least, tuition paid by a non-custodial parent needs to be reported on the student’s FAFSA. If the NCP is paying other bills that are in the student’s name, that is also reportable on FAFSA.