<p>I have a situation that is quite similar on my hands.</p>
<p>I currently live with my grandparents, but lived with my mother through April of last year (which would mean I have lived with my grandparents for greater than 50% of the past year). My parents are divorced and my mother is my legal guardian, but I have very little contact with her. My grandparents and father provide exclusively for my financial well-being (what my father provides is the child support… so that would qualify as my mother’s income, I’m assuming).</p>
<p>I would like to claim my mother as my parent because she makes significantly less money than my father. Considering I’m under her legal custody, would I file only her as a parent on the FAFSA and my father as a non-custodial parent or would I file for both her and my father on the FAFSA?</p>