ok, i looked this up at work, i am a tsr for dish, build up accounts all the time. it is considered a seperate dwelling, which would require its own account if it met one of these two options. first one is if she uses a different mailing address, ie she adds a letter or 32 and 1/2 pine street. also, if she has no way to enter the regular house from her apartment, it is a seperate dwelling. any dns tech who comes out to set this up will follow these guidelines. now if you get a crooked retailer who hooks it up, dont ever call dish for a service call. if a dns tech comes out and sees that she is in deed a seperate dwelling, he will report it to the receiver audit team. after this happens,they will research as to when her reciever was hooked up, and they can back charge you for all past billing that she should have had as well as prosecute and go for extra monies. along with the cable companies, the satelite companys are doing this as well. family member or not does not make a differnece.