What parent information should be used if a student is living with someone other than biological/adopted parents?
The biological/adopted parents information should be used to fill out the FAFSA. If the student has contact with their biological parents then they must make an effort to retrieve information from them. Legal guardians or relatives information is not considered for filling out the FAFSA unless the specific institution the student is planning to attend instructs otherwise. The last resort would be to request a dependency override from each college by explaining the situation through a formal letter and a meeting. At that point, some colleges will accept information from the guardian that has been supporting the student or grant an independency override that will waive the parental information from being needed.
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