HUH?
I think you missed my point. Where does another sibling come into play? Where does a trust fund come in? I was speaking about an individual kid’s FAFSA and that kid requiring the support of the parent to complete it.
Op never mentioned her S having a trust fund, or that Op was divorced, in fact it sounds like her H is the biological father of her S. The focus of this thread is a correction to FAFSA made by a school,that may be incorrect, when there is a complicated financial situation related to how income is earned by two biological parents who are married to each other.
My point was that it is ridiculous that a parent signing the FAFSA no longer has access to it once it is filed so cannot help his or her child with any questions that come up as a result of that filing unless it occurs to that child to ask for help. I was responding to a poster that mentioned she as a student had no problem doing the FAFSA and did not need her parent’s help beyond their income and asset information. In a W2 sitation with little or no assets, it is relatively easy, in Op’s it is not.
I never said it should be a family but rather that most students under 24 who do not earn full merit or choose to go to CC will need parental cooperation to go to college, even if it is just having access to parental income and asset information or co signing a loan. Whether an only child or one of 10! Therefore, if the parent has to cooperate in the process, and sign the forms, why is the parent shut out of the process after the forms are signed? Yes for unusual situations there should be an opt out for the student (and the parent) but for most situations the parent should have full access since the parent, mostly, is either paying or is on the hook for the loans or it is the parent income that is being relied on for full need.