Not sure how you think having your BF claim your daughter solves the issue. If your children lived with you all year, then you are the custodial parent. You can claim your own children on your tax return. If someone else claimed one of your children incorrectly, then print, sign and mail your tax return. The IRS will sort it out.
Do you and the child's father have a signed agreement on Form 8332? If not, he cannot claim the child and will have to amend his own return. You do not have to wait for that----if his return has already been filed -- your child's SSN has been put into the system and you cannot e-file this year.
Are you the custodial parent? Do you have an agreement with the other parent to allow the other parent to claim them--due to divorce or that you live apart and share custody? Did one of you sign a Form 8332?
If there is a signed 8332 then the custodial parent retains the right to file as Head of Household, get earned income credit and the childcare credit. The non-custodial parent gets the child tax credit for children under the age of 17.
As far as the IRS is concerned, the custodial parent is the one with whom the child spent the most nights during the tax year--at least 183 nights.
If you are a non-married couple who live together then only one of you can claim the child(ren) and the one not claiming the child does not enter anything at all on their tax return about the child.
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