Non custodial CSS waiver with mental illness

[mom2collegekids]

@EmilyDC

I am in a similar situation - divorced for 11 years, father has been unemployed for that entire time and has never paid me any support. He has mental health issues but my daughter has not seen him in a few years. I am trying to get a waiver as well.

Does anyone know when the schools tell you they will accept it or not and if they don’t accept it do you then have to try to get the non custodial parent to fill out the profile? Will they tell you before the deadline for documents?

You need to call these schools and ask what they need to get a waiver (only call the ones that require NCP info.

You may be asked to provide something from a 3rd party (priest, rabbi, minister) stating that the NCP has not supported this child and is not in the child’s life.

It may be a tricky situation since it’s not as if the schools are going to take your word (or even the 3rd party’s word) that he’s mentally ill, unemployed, etc.