I just know my daughter was our dependent the year she graduated from college because she lived with us until December, but she will not be this year (2012 taxes) since she has her own place. She is still on our health insurance until she's 26; however.
Answers. The law of conservation of matter states that in any given system that is closed to the transfer of matter, the amount of matter in the system stays constant. The law of conservation of matter says that in chemical reactions, the total mass of the products must equal the total mass of the reactants.
conservation law n. Any of various principles, such as the conservation of charge and the conservation of energy, directly related to principles of symmetry and requiring some measurable property of a closed system to remain constant as the system changes.