gobonzzo
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One of the requirements for claiming a child as a dependent is that the child must live with you more than 6 months of the year (at least 6 months and 1 day).
Here is some IRS gobbledegook I took from my tax program. There is a lot more to it than this but this is some of the highlights:
Qualifying Child
There are five tests that must be met for a child to be your qualifying child. The five tests are:
Relationship,To meet this test, a child must be: Your son, daughter, stepchild, eligible foster child, or a descendant (for example, your grandchild) of any of them, or Your brother, sister, half brother, half sister, stepbrother, stepsister, or a descendant (for example, your niece or nephew) of any of them.
Age, To meet this test, a child must be: Under age 19 at the end of the year, A full-time student under age 24 at the end of the year, or Permanently and totally disabled at any time during the year, regardless of age.
Residency, To meet this test, your child must have lived with you for more than half of the year.
Support, To meet this test, you generally must provide more than half of a person's total support during the calendar year.
To figure if you provided more than half of a person's support, you must first determine the total support provided for that person. Total support includes amounts spent to provide food, lodging, clothing, education, medical and dental care, recreation, transportation, and similar necessities.
Generally, the amount of an item of support is the amount of the expense incurred in providing that item. For lodging, the amount of support is the fair rental value of the lodging.
Expenses that are not directly related to any one member of a household, such as the cost of food for the household, must be divided among the members of the household. |
curtisports2
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Why not agree to split whatever the deduction provides in the way of a tax refund? Figure out both returns with and without the deduction and then you'll be able to see which return will benefit the most from taking the deduction. Then, just split that amount.
If you're engaged and supposedly going to be living a life together and raising a child together, why be at cross-purposes over this? Split it, and then for next year, avoid the problem altogether. Get married. |
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