@dmertz
That’s a pretty compelling case! In essence, I take it that you’re saying that the instructions for 8615 lines A and B are incorrect. Is that what you mean? (Those instructions would have me leave lines A and B black, since I did not live with either parent more.)
I have talked to a CPA who thinks that form 8815 is intended only for *qaulified children of US taxpayers*, so that it doesn’t apply to me or to a German student whose parents are German and not subject to US tax. Everyone here seems to disagree with that. The issue seems really to turn on what the definition of ‘child’ is for the purposes of 26 USC section 1(g). I haven’t been able to find the definition. Can you help?
