Taxpayer's girlfriend and girlfriends grand daughter both lived with taxpayer all year long. Taxpayer made 64,000.00, girlfriend made 7,000.00 in social security and will not be filing a tax return. the girlfriends grandchild gets 200.00 a month in government assistance. the childs parents do not provide any support at all and are not involved in their childs life and neither file tax returns. The girlfriends grand child is 8 years old. the taxpayer pays all of the rent, utilities, 3/4 of the food for the household, buys the childs clothes and pays for school activities and recreation. Can the taxpayer claim head of household with the grandmother meeting the relative requirements? If so how do you record this in turbo tax, it does not want to allow me to claim head of household due to the taxpayer not being related to the child? would i override the filing status or what?
