<p>The link you posted is for dependency for tax purposes. Not the same as dependency for FAFSA. For FAFSA dependency the rules are that if the child is not your own child they must live with you to be considered members of the household.</p>
<p>[Completing</a> the FAFSA 2010-2011/The Application Questions(59-79)](<a href=“http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/completing_fafsa/2010_2011/ques4.html]Completing ”>http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/completing_fafsa/2010_2011/ques4.html )</p>
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Number in parents’ household. Enter the number of family members in your parents’ household.</p>
<p>The following persons are included in your parents’ household size:</p>
<pre><code>* You (the student), even if you do not live with your parents.
Your parents (the ones whose information is reported on the FAFSA).
Your parents’ other children, if your parents will provide more than half of their support from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011 or if the other children could answer “No” to every question in Questions 46-58.
Your parents’ unborn child, if that child will be born before July 1, 2011 and your parents will provide more than half of the child’s support through the end of the 2010-2011 award year (June 30, 2011). (If there is a medical determination of a multiple birth, then all expected children can be included.)
Other people (including your children and/or your unborn child due before July 1, 2011), if they live with and receive more than half of their support from your parents at the time of application and will continue to receive that support from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011.
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