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It seems likely that your chances are highest of acceptance of your genuine claim if it is verifiable. Examples include a parent who is in jail, in the hospital or long term care (nursing home, hospice), homeless, or has been declared mentally incompetent or dead (if missing in action, for example). If your non-custodial parent has never been known (to your custodial parent - so you only have one parent legally) or if you have a number of other life situations that can be verified - you have any type of protection order against your parent, your parent has committed a crime against you, then it seems likely that even if the parent is known and has financial means the school would waive the CSS profile if it would put you in danger to insist on it.Other claims seem trickier to prove and more prone to fraud (so more prone to dispute). You and/or your custodial parent are simply “estranged” from the other parent. The parent has not provided consistent child or spousal support but maintains a US address and there is an order of support on file. Your parent is out of the US and at arm’s length from US law but in contact with and provides support to you. I’m sure that these are handled on a case by case basis.Simply refusing to fill out the form isn’t a valid reason, according to the financial aid officers who I’ve heard speak on the issue.I suppose you could lose all institutional support (federal support is determined by the FAFSA alone) without both CSS profiles. However a school might make a determination of expected family contribution based on your custodial parent’s financial situation (including any court-ordered non-custodial parent support). You certainly need to gather as much paperwork as possible and speak to the financial aid office in advance of any deadlines for advice on what they need and expect to make a determination in your case.

You’ll have to submit a petition for custody to the county court clerk. If there’s already standing orders you’ll have to submit a modification of a custody order. The petition will be processed by the court and they will issue a citation. This citation is then served to the other parent and a court date is set.The judge will look at a number of factors when making his decision. They might request drug testing, psych evaluations, home studies, even your kids input might be considered depending on their age. Be prepared for this because I’m assuming the other parent is going to fight. How long has the current order where the other parent has primary custody been in place? If it’s been an extensive amount of time a judge is unlikely to move a child from a safe familiar living environment and uproot them without extenuating circumstances. Is the other parent unfit? If so how?You might want to consider perhaps trying for a joint custody situation if the custody modification is not about safety. Judges are much more favorable to this type of arrangement because it allows for each parent to be involved more equally.I am not a family law attorney and this is general information. I always recommend speaking with an experienced family law attorney to get a better idea of possible outcomes regarding your specific circumstances. Best of luck to you.

MIT, like all of the elite private colleges will Require you to Apply for Financial Aid.There are No merit scholarships at any elite private US university (top tier).For an US citizen, you will be Required to fill out the FAFSA (so MIT can suck up any available Federal Money……. I can hear that sucking sound 12 miles away……) and the PROFILE (which costs money to fill out) so that MIT can Determine how much money you need.Using the PROFILE, MIT will determine your Expected Family Contribution (EFC). That includes money from You (and you are Expected to have saved some money and are Expected to earn money Every summer), and Each and Every One of your parents. If your parents are divorced, then welcome to the wonderful world of getting info from the non-custodial parent…….. If your parents own a small business, MIT and every college will Assume they are Hiding money in that business and the amount of paperwork could double, and your parents may be in tears…………..MIT then calculates the total annual cost for attendance which is (roughly):tuition, fees, room, board, (everyone lives on campus as a freshman), books, supplies, miscellaneous expenses including local travel, Plus the average cost of two round trips from your home to MIT per year. That is the Total Cost (TC)You pay the EFC. Period. End of Discussion. MIT decides what you can afford to pay.And (unless they recently changed it), you could be dirt poor and your summer job helps put food on the table for your parents and siblings, and MIT will Still demand that you kick in $6,000 per year by either Working during the school year Or… (drum roll, please) Borrowing from the Federal Direct Loan program………. Period. No discussion. MIT nor any college does Not negotiate.So, no matter what. You pay.It may not be $67,000 per year. You may be Lucky in only having to Pay $6,000 per year, but you Will Pay.Enjoy MIT. I did and many thousands of others did.Consider Senior House, as long as they are off probation…………………….

I know this answer from experience. You need to go to the courthouse and file an order for non custodial child support. They will need the information about the non custodial parent expected to pay support. You will meet with the court mediator to fill out the proper forms, get the information needed on the non custodial parent and your information. The mediator will want all social security numbers of both parties involved and the children. The non custodial may ask for a paternity test which will delay the support being paid but…should the paternity test favor that person being the blood parent, they will have to pay arrearages because if they try to skip out there will be a bench warrant issued after the arrears get to be only so much! The state can take away hunting, fishing and drivers license! They can take any savings, stocks or bonds, property or anything of value to punish the non custodial parent for getting behind.

You, the college applicant, are Not the primary person who fills out the FAFSA and/or the PROFILE forms for financial aid for college. Your custodial parent is the Primary person who fills out those forms. Indeed, your parents probably could fill out the entire form themselves with No input from you.You have to sit down with your custodial parent and discuss college financial aid with her/him. I believe you have three sources of funds that contribute towards the EFC (Expected Family Contribution), funds/income from you, your custodial parent and your other parent. It gets complex in a divorce situation, but the college does Not care, as the complexity is Your family’s problem, as your family wants the aid.NOTE: The college will use Both of your parents’ income tax returns for last year and this year to verify the data entered on the FAFSA and PROFILE forms.Seek advice and assistance from All of your parents.

You will have a FSA ID. Keep it somewhere secure and where you can find it when it is needed again over the time your kid is in college. Use this ID to “sign” the parent’s part of the FAFSA.Your student will have their own FSA ID. They need to keep it somewhere secure and where they can find it when it is needed again over the time they are in college. They will use the ID to “sign” their part of the FAFSA.There is no need to show your student your part of the FAFSA. I do suggest you just casually offer to help your student fill out their part of the form.The Parent’s Guide to Filling Out the FAFSA® Form - ED.gov BlogThe FAFSA for school year 2018–19 has been available since October 1. Some financial aid is first come-first served. I suggest you get on with this.How to Fill Out the FAFSA, Step by StepNotes:Reading the other answers brings up some other points:The student pin was replaced by the parent’s FSA ID and the student’s FSA ID in May, 2015. Never the twain need meet.Families each need to deal with three issues in their own way:AffordabilityIf you read my stuff you know I am a devotee of Frank Palmasani’s, Right College, Right Price. His book describes an “affordability” exercise with the parents and the student. The purpose is to determine what the family can afford to spend on post-secondary education and to SET EXPECTATIONS. He’s not talking about putting your 1040 on the dining room table, but sharing some of the basics of family finances.I get the impression that many families ignore this issue.  I have a study that shows five out of eight students assume their families are going to pay for college regardless of cost. Most of these students are in for a big surprise.PrivacySome parents may want to hold their “financial cards” closer to their chest than others. In my opinion that’s OK. I suppose an 18 year old kid, theoretically, has the right to keeping his finances private. My approach to this would not be to make a big deal out of it but to offer to help them fill out their part of the FAFSA. The main objective should be to get the FAFSA filled out properly, in a timely fashion.FraudThis is absolutely not acceptable, and, hopefully, those who try it get caught and suffer the consequences. (I had a conversation with a father recently who was filling out the CSS Profile. He wasn’t intent on committing fraud. He thought he was being clever in defining assets. After our conversation he had to file a signNow revision. This revision was a good thing because two or three years from now his mistake was going to come to light. I’m not sure what the consequences of all that would have been, but, at a minimum, it would have been a big mess to unwind.)

Know up front that I am not a father’s rights advocate. I am not a divorced father (I am a father and a divorce lawyer who represents both men and women without discriminating between the two). While father’s rights advocates have many valid arguments, they come across as so overwhelmingly strident, bitter, and misogynistic in far too many instances that they do their cause more harm than good. That stated:In principle: it should affect the child custody arrangements (award) by the court taking a dim view of the other parent’s infringement of your parental rights and the alienation of the child from his/her parent. It should result in the court finding that the other parent places his/her self-interest above the best interest of the child(ren). It should result in the court issuing orders that protect the child from the other parent’s deleterious actions. It should, if circumstances dictate, result in the court monitoring, supervising, and/or curtailing that parent’s contact with the child temporarily or permanently, depending upon the circumstances.In actual practice: unless 1) you can either lie so persuasively as to overwhelm the lies being told about you, to the point that you have the court eating out of your hand (and please don’t do that (Mark 8:36)); or 2) you have boatloads of politically correct, irrefutable, undeniable, unavoidable, and unmistakable evidence (and it helps if you are not the father—see the supposedly abrogated “tender years doctrine/presumption”), then the other parent’s interference will probably be acknowledged by the court with a facile (unsupported) conclusion that both parents are engaging in the same kind of behavior, followed by an admonition that the parents “get along for the sake of the child” (as if you can cause both parents to get along by sheer force of your individual will or martyrdom) and an award of primary physical custody to the parent who tells the best story (it helps if that parent is also the mother) and/or whose spirit is last/least likely to be broken by the legal process.

In Nevada, the parent with primary physical custody is the custodial parent; the other parent is the non-custodial parent. Typically, a custodial parent has the children at least 60% of the time, but there are exceptions. The custodial parent receives a substantial amount of child support from the non-custodial parent, and relocation outside the State is relatively easy to obtain permission for.It is possible in Nevada for both parents to have physical custody. This is known as joint-physical custody. In such a scenario, there is no non-custodial parent. Child support is nominal, and relocation outside the State with the child is a much more complex issue.