Financial Aid Question

Paying for College
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<p>Okay so here is the deal:</p>

<p>I (the daughter) have been living on my own for 2 years. I currently am engaged and am getting married in May. When I started college and applied for financial aid I put my mother as my parent. (My parents are divorced). My mom makes more money and did help me with my college. However, she has accumulated all my my fathers debt and no longer has been able to help my financial at all. For the last year I have had to pay my own tuition, books, everything. I get nothing from her. My father however has been helping me by letting me come over for dinner when I have no food, letting me use his truck when I had to movie and paying me back for gas when I let him barrow my car. I have had more interaction with my father. Yes he hasn't given me much in the way of money seeing as I work and pay my own bills. </p>

<p>My question is, seeing as he has been helping me in these types of ways, including ones that I have no mentioned can I use him on my FAFSA seeing as my mother has not helped me at all?</p>

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<p>Regulations state that students are to use the parent with whom they lived the most in the past 12 months. If you did not live with your mother (including in the summer), and you did not live with your father … you would use the parent who supported you the most. If Mom didn’t give you money (including paying for insurance, etc), then it sounds like Dad has given you more support.</p>

<p>Some schools will question the change in parent, but many will not. I worked at a state U, and we didn’t question this sort of change.</p>

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<p>How did your mom get stuck with all your dads debt?</p>