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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not true because...you say so?

As a matter of fact, if there's no lease holder renting one of the residential properties you own, you can indeed choose that property as your DC tax and DCPS enrollment address under current DC law.

[b]We recently hired a reputable real estate lawyer to research DCPS residency issues with DC tax authorities, OSSE and DCPS.[/b]  What he told us was that while one can argue that a parent would not be respecting the "spirit of the law" in u[b]sing an address where they don't sleep most of the time to enroll,[/b] you couldn't argue that they're breaking the law and expect to win the argument in court, given the way the relevant laws are written. This has been pointed out by lawyers posting on other residency related threads. The law even permits spouses to claim separate DC domiciles for tax and school enrollment purposes.

None of the residency vigilantes who like calling the OSSE tips line want to hear this. They wish that the law was written differently and love to claim that it is.

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Why?[/quote]

So you’re saying that DC law contains loopholes to facilitate cheating?  Marion Barry may be dead and gone but in DC his ethics live on....[/quote]

"don't sleep most of the time" is pretty vague though ... if it's a parent with shared custody, then using that address is likely fine no matter the exact number of nights.  If it's grandma's house and she does after-school care regularly and lots of overnights, probably ok too.  If you rent a studio that stays empty except for the 2 nights a year you sleep there, then you're committing fraud if you list that as your address on the enrollment forms as where  your family of 5 resides.  If your lawyer gave you such vague advice without drilling down to actually how often you would sleep there, then it was bad advice.  [/quote]

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