Hello, my wife and I are filing Married and Jointly. She has a child from a previous marriage. We have always been able to easily switch back and forth each year that we have a court custody agreement with her ex-husband that allows him to claim her every other year. This year when I went to select that we have an agreement the was an info link about form 8332 but no box or anything to select that this is not our year to claim her.
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You do this by carefully answering the questions in the dependent interview in turbotax by saying yes you have a dependent, and yes you are signing a form 8332 to allow the ex to claim the exemption. Turbotax will assign a special status to your children of "Non-dependent, use for HOH and EIC".
There is no box or question to answer to allow other parent to claim and it shows her as a dependent. This is not correct and we need the ability to have her set as a non-dependent, use for HOH and EIC. We are using the downloaded Turbotax Deluxe version. Information was transferred from 2019 taxes where we claimed her. I tried to edit her information, could not change her status. Tried to delete her and add her new again, could not change her status. Tried to import 2018 turbo tax file and PDF where she was a non-dependent status, import would not go through and it needs to be the 2019 file to import.
