RobertB4444
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After you file

If your parent lives in a home that you pay to maintain then that home is - for all intents and purposes - considered part of your home.  They lived with you all year then.  

 

Zero days is not a legit claim for filing for claiming a parent.

 

Here's a guide to Head of Household qualifications.

 

@fco 

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