Then there would be no reason for OP to get an override. She has some FAFSA only schools that are only asking for income and assets of custodial parent (mom), including child support.
What is the override going to be based on?
She can’t have her cake and eat it to; meaning if her father’s income was taken into consideration, she can’t ask to be separated from her parents income and then still ask that he pay unless she is going to take him to court and sue him, where the lawyers fees may eat up any monies that she gets.
It will be a long drawn out process where the judge still won’t make him pay one third of his pre tax income for school at the expense of supporting younger sibling and what ever spousal support he may have to pay mom.
OP needs to find an affordable option
I agree with Sybbie. It sounds like the OP’s dad has been ordered by a court to pay a certain mount for college for her. That being the case…what is the basis for an override? That it’s not enough to attend a UC as an OOS student? The UCs are FAFSA only schools.
The UCs do are not any longer giving need based aid to OOS students.
This student would not be able to take money from her dad to pay for part of the IC costs AND get a dependency override. Can’t do both.
So she could either have the amount her dad will pay for a UC…OR the Pell grant and $9500 Dorect Loan for independent students.
Neither scenerio will pay for any of these UC schools as an OOS student. OR Purdue as an OOS student.
That is not true. Courts issue new protection orders all the time when an existing one expires, especially if the same conditions still exist. If there was a physical assault, you don’t need to have another physical assault to continue an order. The court might have a hearing to determine the current situation, but even that isn’t always required.
The OP needs to let us know if the custody was transferred to the state or not. If it was, the FAFSA filing with the mother’s information was incorrect, and the student should have filed as an independent. It might not change anything (although the mother’s information would include child support), but I bet OP would then get a full Pell grant and maybe some other aid.
OP, $150,000/year is not a high enough income to pay $50,000/year for college even the parent wants to help. That’s $120,000 net pay, probably less in NJ. Property taxes and health care are going to knock another $10,000 or more. You’re looking at 40-50% of net income less property taxes and health care. That’s not feasible for most people. I’m not arguing your dad is a good person but he couldn’t afford to send you to a UC if he was.
Op may have filed her FAFSA incorrectly if she included dad’s income and he does not live in the home. If this is the case she must change FAFSA to only include mon’s income.
One case for override is the irreparable dissolution of the family meaning the the relation with ok and both of her parents is irreparably broken
Courts like to keep families in tact if possible.
It looks like the court did not remove children from the home and custody of mom, no supervised visitation situation for mon , did not place them in kinship , foster care or wards of the court. Even with kids who have court ordered PINS petitions are not wards of the court until the child is removed from the parental home.
While CPS and/or other agencies may be involved with the family, that does not make children wards of the court. Schools are the first to know if there are non-access flags, which would be placed on all student files if parent(s) were not to have access), which may be situation with dad.
Perhaps op can benefit from a gap year and apply to some affordable options where only custodial parent info would be used or where she can get merit $$. She would also have a good case for a noncustodial waiver