I had a stillborn in January 2017. Can I claim her this year or next?

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I had a stillborn in January 2017. Can I claim her this year or next?

A child must be born alive to be able to claim them as a dependent on a tax return. If the child had been born alive, even if for only a short time, the child could be claimed as a dependent on the 2017 tax return, to be filed next year.

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