Divorced parents complicate financial aid matters. Please read FAQ: Divorced parents, financial aid, and net price calculators . However, if your non-custodial parent will not be cooperative with financial aid forms, then colleges which require non-custodial parent finances will not give need-based financial aid (i.e. you need to be able to pay list price, or aim for merit scholarships which tend to be much harder than admission).
Complex assets complicate financial aid matters even more.
Like most students, you need to be picky about affordability, and can only be picky on other aspects within the set of colleges that are affordable.