Under
the IRS guidelines, in order to claim Head of Household, you need to meet all
the following requirements:
You are unmarried or considered unmarried on the
last day of the year.
You paid more than half the cost of keeping up a
home for the year.
A qualifying person lived with you in the home for more than
half the year (except for temporary absences, such as school). However, if the
qualifying person is your dependent parent, he or she doesn't have to live with
you.
In certain circumstances, you do not have to claim your child as a dependent to qualify for head of household filing status; for example, a custodial parent may be able to claim head of household filing status even if he or she released a claim to exemption for the child.
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