Filling for my stay at home wife and baby

Bruceyj2 — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:27:55 GMT

We are not legally married, let me start there. My girlfriend will be a stay at home mom for the entire 2019 and I want to claim her as well as my child. How does it work?

Re: Filling for my stay at home wife and baby

VolvoGirl — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:32:08 GMT

If she lives with you the whole year and makes less than 4,200 total you can claim her. Since the child is yours you will be filing as Head of Household.

Re: Filling for my stay at home wife and baby

DoninGA — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:32:55 GMT

You can claim the GF as a non-relative dependent on your tax return if she meets all the requirements under the Qualifying Relative rules.

To be a Qualifying Relative -

1. The person cannot be your qualifying child or the qualifying child of any other taxpayer. A child is not the qualifying child of any other taxpayer if the child's parent (or any other person for whom the child is defined as a qualifying child) is not required to file an income tax return or files an income tax return only to get a refund on income tax withheld.
2. The person either (a) must be related to you or (b) must live with you all year as a member of your household.
3. The person's gross income for the year must be less than $4,150 (social security does not count) in 2018
4. You must provide more than half of the person's total support for the year.
5. The person must be a U.S. citizen or a U.S., Canada, or Mexico resident for some part of the year.
6. The person must not file a joint return with their spouse.

You can claim your biological child as a dependent under the Qualifying Child rules if they meet all the requirements.

To be a Qualifying Child -

1. The child must be your son, daughter, stepchild, foster child, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, stepbrother, stepsister, or a descendant of any of them.
2. The child must be (a) under age 19 at the end of the year, (b) under age 24 at the end of the year and a full-time student or (c) any age and permanently and totally disabled.
3. The child must have lived with you for more than half of the year. Temporary absences while away at college are considered living with you.
4. The child must not have provided more than half of his or her own support for the year.
5. If the child meets the rules to be a qualifying child of more than one person, you must be the person entitled to claim the child as a qualifying child.
6. The child must be a U.S. citizen or U.S., Canada or Mexico resident for some portion of the year.
7. The child must be younger than you unless disabled.

Re: Filling for my stay at home wife and baby

Bruceyj2 — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:33:21 GMT

Yes she lived with me the whole year. Thank you

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