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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Laws on domicile vary from state to state. DC is a jurisdiction where many resident maintain strong ties to states. This helps explain why DC domicile is more loosely constructed than in many states, both in the way law on domicile is written, and how it's enforced.  For better or worse, DCPS looks at where you file DC taxes where school residency is concerned. As long as residency investigators find no evidence of a lease holder at a property you own, and where you claim residence, they leave you alone.  The DC courts don't have a history of coming at DC residents for school residency fraud in cases where DC income tax has been filed.  There aren't precedent cases.

When OSSE busted a couple DC police officers who reside in MD for residency fraud back in 2016, they found that the idiots were not only renting out their DC properties, they were taking their tenants to DC Landlord-Tenant court.

I'm not arguing that this is good, I'm explaining why what what is arguably school boundary fraud remains prevalent, at least in Upper NW.[/quote]

Nobody ever said that "domicile" has a unitary meaning. But I can say with certainty that anyone who thinks renting a studio they never stay in and reporting that as their home address to attend Deal is absolutely opening themselves up to fraud charges. [b]DC is clearly getting serious about all of this stuff.[/b] [/quote]

This is BS.  DCPS hasn't changed their position on "boundary cheating," not at the top, or down at the school registrar's level.  If you get investigated for cheating on residency, you submit a stack of residency docs and perhaps submit to a home visit.  If you can clear the documents bar, particularly by providing DC tax returns with your IB address on them, you're cleared.  Parents seeking OOB access to Deal, and desirable DCPS elementary schools all around the city, can find this out and get resourceful.  But it'a hard work to play this sort of in-boundary residency game well, and costs plenty of money.  Few parents can manage it.[/quote]

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