Noncustodial parent income effect

<p>If my dad does not claim me as a dependent and does not contribute child support to my mother, how will BC use his income in determining my financial aid award? They are asking for his tax returns, which is complicated considering he has filed once in the past like decade. I’m hoping they don’t simply add his income to my mother’s, I don’t think that would be fair seeing as he doesn’t contribute. Anyone have experience in this that can help me out? What happened for you with divorced parents?</p>

<p>Boy, would I like to know the answer for this one. We are in the very same awful boat for my son.</p>

<p>Yeah, I’ve been trying to work with the FinAid office but they haven’t been much help. The people have been kinda rude. I’m hoping it doesn’t screw me over but I have a feeling it will.</p>

<p>bump. anyone with experience?</p>

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<p>Dunno about BC, but unfortunately, that is standard practice. Colleges believe that is the parent’s responsibility to pay for their children’s college education, which includes both bio parents. (If they did not require NCP to contribute, every NCP would claim non-support.) However, some colleges – again dunno about BC – will take into consideration if a NCP has been long gone and out of a child’s life.</p>

<p>From BC’s website:
<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/offices/stserv/financial/finaid/undergrad/faq/finaidfaqgeneral.html#gen_seven[/url]”>http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/offices/stserv/financial/finaid/undergrad/faq/finaidfaqgeneral.html#gen_seven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Good luck.</p>

<p>Hey I was recently in the same situation and my financial adviser told me to make a non-custodial profile for my father. Its a link through college board and he was surprisingly cooperative with me to fill it out. Its no long and it describes the amount of aid he provides to your family (which is usually close to nothing) and should help prove that your EFC is low considering its probably mostly from your mother, like in my situation. Hopefully everything works out.</p>