The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) takes into consideration whether a student’s divorced parents live together. Students whose divorced parents don’t live together should provide information about the parent with whom they’ve lived more over the past 12 months. Students who lived equally with both parents (which is actually quite difficult to accomplish, if you think about it) should instead provide information about the parent who provided more financial support over the past 12 months. The FAFSA does require students to include information about a stepparent who is married to their legal parent. It also requires students to include information about both legal parents if they live together despite being divorced.