I pay for her insurance, phone, internet, uber, most food, the house and she is with us 80-90% of the time. But in the "Tell us about your child" there is only this child is my daughter or son and she is my stepdaughter. If I don't select daughter, it always says that more info is needed about her.
The answer I got below is not helping me with my question. If I don't select son or daughter (and she is my stepdaughter), then turbo tax always puts that I need to answer more questions.
also later on it asks for her income. she is 16 (just turned 16) and a student with zero income.
Your Two possibilities to claim a dependent are as follows:
You may be able to claim your stepdaughter as a Qualifying Child dependent if:
You may be able to claim your stepdaughter as a Qualifying Relative dependent if:
Here's how to add a dependent in TurboTax.
I am confused by this. I did the how to add a dependent but then in the tell us about your child I don't know what to pick. if i pick daughter (which she is not, she is my stepdaughter) it works but if I don't pick that no credit's are applied
also, what does child needs to be related to me mean ? she is my stepdaughter but that doesn't make her related to me. I pay all her healthcare since she is on my family plan, food, the lives in our house, i pay phone, internet, uber, etc.