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.
She went on to attend Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, the city's first magnet high school for gifted children, where, among other activities, she served as the student government treasurer. In 1981, Michelle graduated from the school as class salutatorian.