What was your situation prior to getting married? This will determine how you would answer that question.
If no one (other than your spouse) paid for more than half of your support for the year, then you would say YES, you supported yourself.
If you were living with your parents prior to getting married, and depending on how old you are, you would use your total expenses for the year and figure out how much you contributed to the expenses versus your parents. If you are married, you and your spouses income count as you supporting yourself. You can use this worksheet to determine if you did or did not pay over half of your support for the year.
In order for someone else to claim you the following criteria would have to apply:
To claim someone as a Qualifying Relative, they must be:
- Your child ( including step children, adoptive children and foster children) or a descendent of them
- Your sibling (including half siblings) or a child of your sibling or a sibling-in-law
- Your parent or grandparents, including step parents and in laws
- Any other person that lived with you for the entire tax year
- Not a qualifying child of another taxpayer
- Someone that you provided over half of their support for during the tax year
- Has less than $5,200 in income (not counting social security)
The following criteria must be met to claim someone as a qualifying child:
- Your child (including adopted and foster children), your sibling, or a descendent of any of them.
- Age 18 or younger at the end of the tax year OR under 24 (and younger than you and your spouse) if they are a full-time student or any age if they are totally and permanently disabled
- Lived with you for more than 6 months during the tax year
- They did not provide more than half of their own support (social security does not count)
- They did not file a joint return, unless it was to claim a refund
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