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You may be able to claim your son as a Qualifying Child dependent if: (health insurance notwithstanding for both depenents below):
You may be able to claim your son as a Qualifying Relative dependent if:
You can’t claim a dependent if you are a dependent on someone else’s taxes
See Rules For Claiming Dependents
The rules above will qualify you to cliam your son even though he files his own return although two individuals cannot cliam the same exemption. For instance, if you are eligible to claim him per the above, he should not have claimed himself. If he did so, he should amend his return.
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