EDIT: I think I do agree with you that the kid attending a boarding school or metal hospital would qualify as a temporary absence. So we're good there.

Now I'm just wondering if my client would meet the support test given he really didn't pay for any of his child's cost other than a few expenses here and there. So I think that's what in play here. Any thought about that or how to come to a conclusion that he di or did not meet the support test given my client's health insurance provider and/or Medicaid basically picked up the tab.