Question...

Paying for College
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<p>so my parents have been divorced for about eh…5 years</p>

<p>Parent 1 (who takes care of me) makes 20k a year
Parent 2 (Who doesn’t take care of me, cut me off child support before I was 18 somehow, and somehow manages to claim me on taxes) makes 150k a year.</p>

<p>Parent 2 is not paying for college, parent 2 probably spend a grand total of 1k on me a year (considering the cost of my college, car, insurance, etc thats not a whole hell of a lot).</p>

<p>Do I have to list parent 2 on my FAFSA information? Because parent 2 might as well not even exist in my life and has no fiscal bearing on my life in general, much less my secondary education.</p>

<p>Parent 2 was NOT my primary guarding after the divorce…So will parent 2 affect my FAFSA application in anyway?</p>

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<p>from <a href=“http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/completing_fafsa/2007_2008/ques5.html[/url]”>http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/completing_fafsa/2007_2008/ques5.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>So the answer is no parent no. 2 should not affect FAFSA except any child support payments in the base year (2006) will have to be shown as income. If you are applying to any schools requiring CSS profile it is a different story.</p>

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<p>there was no child support in 2006</p>