<p>Can anyone provide me a link to an official FAFSA/gov't website where it specifically says it does not matter which parent (in a divorce situation) claims the student as a dependent on their taxes with regard to who should be supplying the custodial parent information?</p>
<p>I have a situation with a dad who has been supplying the custodial parent income and asset information (he supplies most of the student's support), and a mom who wants to claim the child as a deduction on her taxes this year (she has this right under the divorce agreement). The dad, her ex-husband, will not accept that she can claim the student on her taxes if he is supplying the FAFSA information.</p>
<p>I looked for a link on the FAFSA website, and found something close that pertains to household size, but not that addresses directly this issue.</p>
<p>The FAFSA “who is a parent” section does not specifically address the tax return question, but it does say that it is the parent the student lives with the most who must be reported. </p>
<p>Yeah, I just have this very recalcitrant jerk who is hassling his his ex-wife big time … he’s not going to listen to anything anyone tells him. I was hoping to find somewhere on the FAFSA website that spells it out very specifically, but maybe that just doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>Anyway, the wife called a few minutes ago and she’s going to give up the tax savings she would have gotten by claiming the daughter on her taxes, just so she can keep her jerky ex as far away as possible.</p>