Non Custodial Parent Profile_Vent

_rentof2
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:34:28 +0000

Flutemom, I’m glad you’re getting some movement on this. Honestly, I don’t think it will be a problem in the end. My son’s best friend has a father that has been mostly absent in his life, and he got a waiver from a top tier school even after his father actually filled out the non-custodial parent Profile form. His father first said he’d help with college costs, but then when he actually got a bill he suddenly refused. His contact with his son had been very intermittant, and while he had offered some financial support for braces and things like that, it had not been reliable or predictable. Anyway, the kids’ mom talked to FA and explained the family history (this dad also left the mom 19 years earlier when she got pregnant and refused to get an abortion), and the school quickly waived the non-custodial parent from the FA calculations.

You’re going to be fine. You have such a clear case. If the counselor can’t resolve it in all cases, your daughter should apply to all the schools she wants to anyway, and just submit a letter explaining the situation. A copy of the court document ordering the garnished wages is good too. Sometimes, like in the case of the kid I described above, they actually gave him a waiver after he’d already received the first FA offer, and recalculated his aid based only on his mother’s income.