If you are applying for financial aid (FAFSA) and your biological parents are divorced, do you have to combine incomes on the form or do you use the parent that has sole custody over you? If you use the parent’s income that has sole custody, do you have to factor in the other parent’s child support? Thanks!
Which parent did you reside with greater than 50% of the time on the day you file your FAFSA? That is your custodial parent…and is the only parent you put on the FAFSA.
Any spousal or child support your custodial parent receives needs to be listed as well.
Remember…you are using income from 2016 for the 2018-2019 FAFSA.
Custodial parent’s income, PLUS any step parent income in that household, PLUS their non-protected assets,…PLUS any child support for yourself and siblings paid to that household.