How Do I Complete the 2024–25 FAFSA® Form If My Parents Are Divorced or Separated?

Parent information is required when completing and submitting the 2024–25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) form if you’re considered a dependent student.

If your parents are divorced or separated, which parent’s information will be required is determined by whether your parents live together or not and which parent provided the most financial support.

[kat_sf]

In a set of divorced parents, one can have greater assets while the other has greater income. How do you determine who provides the most support when the goal of most divorce settlements is to make child support equitable? The goal support is usually 50/50.

[mimi_sona]

My parents are legally still married but have been separated for 7 years and don’t live together. In the previous fafsa application there is an option for separate but there none for the new one. What should I put down

[alex-dqud]

what about if a parent refuses to give any info to you and you dont really know how to get in contact

[Carrie-lpwt]

What if divorced parents. The parent that provides the most support remarries but it's only been a few months and they file everything separately? Nothing is joint: Banking, assets etc...

[lu-fgih]

What do I do about stepparent and parent who are separated and not living together? I’m not getting an option on the fafsa to indicate that.

[ninareali]

How to label if a parent is deceased??

[jencincy]

What about parents still married and living together? Is that so strange it’s ignored?