@ChiCasa have you used the NPC on the Syracuse website? I realize you have to get your non-custodial paperwork taken care of for Syracuse to work out your specific financial aid package but I am wondering if you try the calculator based on your family’s current situation if that will give you some insight? Anyone have any thoughts on this? If @Chicasa were to be granted a non-custodial waiver, wouldn’t it just put him in the situation of the financial information he would already have to enter for his mother which he can enter into the NPC now and get an idea of what his EFC will be? The non-custodial parent’s information will just make it more non-affordable but not make it more affordable, right?
Regarding court-ordered child support, my cousin’s daughter was in a similar situation. It sounds like your court ordered child support is also processed through court administration? My cousin’s daughter was in a similar situation. She had no contact (he remarried when she was 1 and he forgot he had a child) and her daughter never saw him again. The court ordered child support which they they wire transferred to her mom’s account. When my cousin’s daughter applied to college, with her turning 18 in the spring of her senior year of high school, they tried the non-custodial waiver route too and were denied. While she did not have contact information for him, they said she could have gone through the court to have the non-custodial paperwork completed. Problem for her was they no longer live in that state and the court wanted to schedule a hearing. They simply ran out of time because they did not get this process started early enough.