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Are  the students biological or adoptive parents married to each other?

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Are  the students biological or adoptive parents married to each other?

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Did One Parent Provide more financial support than the other in the past 12 months?

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Did One Parent Provide more financial support than the other in the past 12 months?

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Do the student's biological or adoptive parents live together?

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Do the student's biological or adoptive parents live together?

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The parents' marital status is married, (not seperated) then both of their financial information and approval is needed. If the parents file taxes jointly, then only one parent will be considered the contributor and, will need to include the joint information and approval.

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The parents' marital status is married, (not seperated) then both of their financial information and approval is needed. If the parents file taxes jointly, then only one parent will be considered the contributor and, will need to include the joint information and approval.

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If the parents' marital status is unmarried, meaning both legal parents are living together, yet separated or divorced, then both of their individual information consent and approval are required on your FAFSA form. 

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If the parents' marital status is unmarried, meaning both legal parents are living together, yet separated or divorced, then both of their individual information consent and approval are required on your FAFSA form. 

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The individual information, consent, approval and signature is needed from the parent who provided more financial support over the past 12 months. This will make this parent a contributor.

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The individual information, consent, approval and signature is needed from the parent who provided more financial support over the past 12 months. This will make this parent a contributor.

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The individual information, consent, approval and signature are needed from the parent who has the greater income or asset is required on the FAFSA form and will be considered a contributor.

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The individual information, consent, approval and signature are needed from the parent who has the greater income or asset is required on the FAFSA form and will be considered a contributor.

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If parents' marital status is remarried, then both the parent and stepparent information will be needed. If they have filed taxes jointly, only the joint tax information, approval and signature of the parent or stepparent, is needed.

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If parents' marital status is remarried, then both the parent and stepparent information will be needed. If they have filed taxes jointly, only the joint tax information, approval and signature of the parent or stepparent, is needed.

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If the parents marital status is single meaning never married, divorced or widowed no other parent information is needed on the FAFSA form.

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If the parents marital status is single meaning never married, divorced or widowed no other parent information is needed on the FAFSA form.

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Important Terms: Stepparent                                         

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Important Terms: Stepparent                                         

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A Stepparent is considered a parent if they have adopted you. Stepparents that have not adopted the student will be considered as a parent spouse.

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Important Terms:                                                                     Parent                                                               

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Important Terms:                                                                     Parent                                                               

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A parent is considered your legal biological or adoptive parent or a person that the state has determined to be your parent.

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Important Terms:                                                                    Contributor

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Important Terms:                                                                    Contributor

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A contributor refers to anyone (you, your spouse, your biological or adoptive parent, or your parent's spouse) who is required to provide information on your 2024–25 FAFSA form. Contributor is specific to the new 2024-2025 FAFSA form.

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This information was sourced from the image below

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This information was sourced from the image below

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This resource was initally accesed here https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out/dependency

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Before you start please review the items to the right of this post. Then scroll down further to see the flow chart designed to help identify which parent's information is needed on the 2024-2025 FAFSA form for dependent students.

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Before you start please review the items to the right of this post. Then scroll down further to see the flow chart designed to help identify which parent's information is needed on the 2024-2025 FAFSA form for dependent students.