<p>Hey guys, I am having a little problem with my app.</p>
<p>My father and mother divorced when I was kid, and my mother married to another guy. So when the college app asked about my dad, what should I fill-out? My step father or biological father??? Also, say if I just put my biological dad's information down and if I put <em>divorced</em> for my parents' marital status, will that be weird because my mother is currently married to another guy? </p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>God bless you all!</p>
<p>You put divorced. The parent you live with most is the one for the FAFSA financial aid application. It’s not weird. It’s really the norm now.</p>
<p>OKay, thank you sir! 
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<p>To expand on that: the FAFSA asks the <em>household</em> information; you would put your mother’s (if you live primary with your mother) and stepfather’s incomes and finances. If they are the ones primarily raising you, then they are the ones the Federal government considers responsible for paying your college costs. This is the case even if your real parents share joint legal custody and your stepfather has no legal parental rights or responsibilities towards you.</p>
<p>If an individual college asks for your <em>parents</em> information, they are divorced/remarried. They might ask this regardless of whether you are applying for FA.</p>
<p>Some schools (mostly private schools) will ask your parents’ and their spouse’s financial information. This might be referred to as CSS Profile NCP (or just NCP Profile). These schools consider your father’s income to be available to pay for your college costs, regardless of whether he gets to take part in raising you or not.</p>
<p>The only grey area seems to be when someone is adopted, for example by one parent’s new spouse after the other parent has died. The adopting parent then becomes your true and legal parent for all intents and purposes, but the school might still be interested to know that your natural parent died. This does not seem to apply to your case.</p>