separated/divorced for FAFSA purposes

Paying for College
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<p>My dad doesn’t live with us anymore, it seems unfair to me that whikle our current family income is 20k a year or so. The EFC is 6k/2 kids = 3k each. he doesnt contribute anything. the problem is that they are not divorced and my mom can’t pay the fees for the process. My quewstion is “separated” a legal tern in the process of divorcing or w/e.</p>

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<p>seperated parents are allowed on fafsa
<a href=“http://www.finaid.org/fafsa/headofhousehold.phtml[/url]”>http://www.finaid.org/fafsa/headofhousehold.phtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The IRS rule–if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s likely to be a duck. Permanent longterm separation is good enough in most cases.</p>