For California returns, taxpayers filing with the Head of Household status do have to meet the income test requirements for certain dependents. The rules noted in your question are the federal rules, and California does not conform to these in all cases.
If you are not filing as Head of Household, please let us know in which section of the program you are seeing this question so we can investigate further.
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