<p>is it possible to fill out the fasfa using only my dad's info and not including his wife (not related to me) or my mothers info?</p>
<p>Who do you live with? </p>
<p>For the FAFSA, if your parents are divorced, you MUST use the parent (and spouse if there is one) with whom you reside the most.
If you live with your Mom, you would not include your dad or his wife on the FAFSA.
If you live with your dad, you are required to use your dad’s AND his wife’s information.</p>
<p>wife’s</p>
<p>She may not be a blood relation, but if she is married to your father, she IS legally related to you. And yes, you must include her income on your Fafsa -she is part of your famly, as is your mother.</p>
<p>^^
A step parent is NOT legally related to a step child. A step parent cannot authorize medical treatment, cannot sign school permission slips, cannot do anything like that unless authorized by the legal/biological parent.</p>
<p>However, if you share a household with a step parent, then that person’s income is included on the FAFSA. This is because if there is a step parent living in the home, that income goes towards household expenses, and in theory frees up some of the parent’s income to help pay college costs. </p>
<p>On the other hand, a live-in “significant other” does not have their income reported on FAFSA. It’s time for the feds to recognize that more and more people live together outside of marriage and change this. Maybe as we have more and more states authorize gay marriage this will happen, as it opens a whole other matter as well…</p>
<p>This is an area of financial aid that has so much room for improvement…I wish the income of both biological parents followed their kids and left step parents out of it. So many step parents come into the equation just as the kid is getting close to college age, which doesn’t seem fair to the step parent if there’s a high earning non-custodial biological parent that is essentially off the hook according to FAFSA.</p>
<p>I wish the OP would clarify who she lives with.</p>
<p>What did you report on the FAFSA for the three years you spent in community college? Who claims you as a dependent on their income tax?
Which parent do you live with?</p>
<p>For financial aid purposes, it’s the parent you LIVE with the most. Tax filing status doesn’t matter one bit.</p>