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As long as you meet all of those requirements you should be OK.  If the IRS questions it for any reason, they will ask for them type of documentation that they want to show that you paid more than 1/2 the total cost of keeping the home for you and your child.  I would certainly keep receipts for utilities, and other such receipts, that show that you lived in the home and paid the bills.

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