Non-custodial parents

lmpw
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:36:28 +0000

Post 18. This hasn’t been my experience. In many elite private institutions - Ivys, LAC, they require the combined incomes of BOTH parents - regardless of divorce. I’m from California where the law doesn’t require any support of a parent to a child over the age of 18. Thus, neither parent has an obligation to a child beyond high school. When I submitted just the custodial parent without the father’s income, I was told that both parent’s income, regardless of the divorce judgment would be taken into account. As a result of adding the huge father’s salary (noncustodial parent), we got zero financial aid. With the mom salary alone, I would have qualified for $22,000.