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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Contact questbridge.org about College Match.  they might give special consideration to DH finances as separate, and if you really earn very little, they might pay for college[/quote]

Questbridge is not going to divert money from students who are genuinely low income to pay for this child's tuition.  [/quote]

If DH won't offer nickel, mother earns less than 60k, deadbeat dad they might.  [/quote]

I work for a college access program. Sometimes we make exceptions to our income guidelines, but it's usually for something like the young person is homeless after being kicked out and parents won't pay, or the young person was sent to the US to stay with a relative who has guardianship but that person has never had financial responsibility for the kid. OP's kid is in a terrible situation, but it's outside of what we do. My off the record advice would be to build a paper trail that dad is the custodial parent and apply using his info. With the current lookbacks, that might be a couple year process.

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Hi, I am dating someone with kids. My impression is that the current system is that CSS schools ask for info from both biological and stepparents, regardless of custody. But that Fafsa only asks for custodial parent, which includes stepparent of stepparent is living with custodial parent. So ops kid could claim dad is custodial and only put his info down. However, I’ve read the law on this is changing and Fafsa is going to become more like css. I’m not sure what’s accurate. Would love to have your insight![/quote]

Yes, you got most of that right! My understanding with FAFSA is that they will move from using custodial parent info to using the info for the parent with the higher AGI. The FAFSA is also getting shorter so I don't think they will add all the questions about assets that are on the CSS profile-it will still be about income. The other big FAFSA change will be that no discount for multiple kids in college will be calulated.[/quote]

Thanks! Yes, my boyfriend is the higher AGI parent, at least right now. Does that mean his ex’s income does not factor in? And how does my income factor in, if at all, if we were to marry?[/quote]

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