<p>My daughter's father is self employed and pays only 2,508 / yr in child support, as he claims he makes only 15,000 after business expenses. I have been divorced from him since 1998 and this amount started only 2 yrs after our divorce. He sees her ...possibly 16-20 hours a year. He has never, in my daughter's life attended an academic or sport function. He is now refusing to give his financial information for the Profile. Will the minimal support and next to nothing visitation be enough that we won't get a waiver for his information? (My daughter's grades and scores are good enough that she is at least trying several Ivy League schools as well as some other prestigious universities.) If anyone has input on this, I would greatly appreciate your viewpoint.</p>
<p>The spouse pretty much has to be out of the picture - no contact. The fact that he sees her, you know how to reach him, and he is providing minimal child support means it is highly unlikely you will get a waiver.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>Think…</p>
<p>I hope your D also applied to some schools that you know will be affordable that don’t require her dad’s info. </p>
<p>Your situation is one where the dad is paying support according to his income (even if he is pretending to earn less than he does), and he does see her. The fact that he sees her for 16-20 hrs per year isn’t relevant because some NCPs live out of state and can only see their kids rarely as well. </p>
<p>Look at it from the schools’ perspective…your ex doesn’t want to provide info. he’s self-employed (and you’re hinting that his income really is larger), so a school would want to see if there are funds there to pay for college…even if he doesn’t want to pay.</p>
<p>you can hope to get a sympathetic school to give your D a waiver, but the situation doesn’t really call for one. The concept of these waivers were supposed to be for situations where the NCP has “took off” and no one knows where he is, and no support has been coming in. There are exceptions, but that’s more typically the case.</p>