My separated wife will claim our children as dependents but she will file single because one lives with me full-time and the other spends half to more than half her time with me. The IRS says I can file as HoH but TT forces me to file as Single. The only work-around I have found is to manually go into the 1040 worksheet and select HoH by putting in my son's name as a qualifying person but not filed as my dependent. Why doesn't TT just ask the appropriate questions to make this happen. If I missed it somewhere and TT does, where? It may need to be more obvious in any case and not require someone like me to know this is possible.
