To meet the support requirements necessary to claim your parent as a dependent on your tax return, you must cover more than half of your parentâs support costs â meaning 51% or more of their support costs must be covered by you.
Who Is Michelle Obama? Michelle Obama was born in 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985, and went on to earn a degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. Following her graduation from Harvard, she worked at a Chicago law firm, where she met her husband, future U.S. president Barack Obama.
First Lady Michelle Obamaâs pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. Both Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama began their adult lives with a leg up on the rest of America. They attended elite schools: Michelle went to Whitney Young, the public magnet school for Chicagoâs upper class, while Barack attended Punahou, the private prep school for the top stratum of Hawaiian society.