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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is NOT Residency Fraud because her principal residence is in DC. She will not violate any laws of falsifying documents if she makes the condo her principal home for legal purposes.
DCPS Only states that you attest to “residing” at the particular address.  DC does not have a definition of the word RESIDE.  Merriam-Webster's definition of "reside" is to dwell permanently or continuously- occupy a place as one's legal domicile or have one's permanent home in a particular place.
Now let’s move to the word domicile - a person's fixed, permanent, and principal home for legal purposes.
So as long as you define the IB home as your principal home for legal purposes you have not broken any laws. Make it your “legal” home (with all documents DC uses to verify residency) and you will have not committed perjury or lied under oath or section of the DC code.  
Enjoy Wilson and much success to you, your family and your child!

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That's nice how you think you can just make up the laws and facts.  Changing your address on your tax forms and drivers license =/= making it your legal residence. You can't just change your address and make that your place of legal domicile.  And even if we're going by the Merriam-Webster definition (which is hysterical that you think that's probative of anything), OP is not meeting that definition, because she does not dwell there at all. [/quote]

+1. So many issues with this response. DC absolutely has a definition of the word "reside." Each state defines that word for countless situations, school enrollment being one of them.

Residency issues are frequently litigated; there's a ton of case law on it; and in the situation OP describes, under literally any state's definition (except maybe Florida), she or her kid would absolutely NOT qualify as residing at her mom's future condo.[/quote]

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