<p>If my parents are divorced, will my EFC be lowered? Is child support equated in? I am under my mother's custody but my two brothers are under my father's. If my grandma lives with us and my mother owns the house, does that factor into the EFC? By the way, my mother makes between $50-55,000, I think.</p>
<p>Money your Mom receives in child support is reported… yes.</p>
<p>When your parents are divorced the “set” of parents you live with (if each remarry) is determined by which set you live with the most in the 12 months before you fill out the fafsa. So if you are with Mom, and she is currently married, you would report her and her husband’s income and assets. </p>
<p>If grandma has her own income and supports herself, then you don’t list her in the household on your fafsa.
Here is the criteria:
73. How many people are in your parents’ household?
Include:
• yourself, even if you don’t live with your parents,
• your parents,
• your parents’ other children if (a) your parents will provide more than half of their support between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011, or
(b) the children could answer “No” to every question in Step Three on page 5 of this form, and
• other people if they now live with your parents, your parents provide more than half of their support and your parents will continue to
provide more than half of their support between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’m still a bit confused. Will the child support my mother has to pay also be equated into this, as my mother has to pay more for two kids. And next year, I will be 18 and my adoptive father will not be held financially responsible. Can I not include him then? I have a restraining order on him, so he really isn’t my father anymore.</p>
<p>The custodial parent and his/ her new spouse is all you report for FAFSA only schools, but most private schools usebProfile as well and ask for info from both parents. Until you’re 24, you’ll have to provide info for all parents the school requires.</p>
<p>Yes the child support your mother PAYS to an ex-husband is reported on the fafsa. </p>
<p>Your adopted father’s income goes on the fafsa until you are 24, married, have kids you support or a few other things. </p>
<p>It doesn’t matter that you turn 18, you still have to include him (because no one is financially responsible for your college education but you anyway) for the FAFSA, it’s 24, married, have kids you support of a few more rare things.</p>
<p>Here is the paper form, so you can see all the questions before you do it online:
<a href=“http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/fotw1112/pdf/PdfFafsa11-12.pdf[/url]”>http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/fotw1112/pdf/PdfFafsa11-12.pdf</a></p>
<p>*Your adopted father’s income goes on the fafsa until you are 24, married, have kids you support or a few other things.
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<p>If your mom is divorced from your adopted father, then his income does NOT go on FAFSA.</p>
<p>And only some CSS Profile schools require the financial info of the non-custodial parent’s family.</p>