Parent's Marital Status

martingreen
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:00:36 +0000

My parent’s are legally married, however they are emotionally/physically separated, live in separate houses, and file their taxes as married filing separately. Should I put them as married or separated? They have not been together for 4 or 5 years now and have agreed to see other people, but don’t want to go through the divorce/separation process. I sent this as a question to the Common App’s help center, but the answer they gave me was about why I need to provide information about my parents.

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