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Originally Posted by scottmandue
At first we thought because I'm her step dad my income wouldn't figure into the equation.
Well now we found out it does... and my whopping $42K a year knocked her out of the grant money (her dad makes about the same, my wife less).
How the fark do they expect us to pay for college on $42K?!?
This is in Oregon, any recourse?
TIA
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IIRC you and the missus were living serperately until the daughter went way to school?
If you were both covering your separate bills, rent/mortgage, utilities etc... and can show that to be true you can argue that your wife, and by extension your step daughter, derived no monetary benefit from your marriage you may get somewhere.
However you'd likely need to set up some arrangement going forward where the finances continue to stay separate.
Worth a shot.