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If TurboTax is asking you who the child's legal parents are, you answered an earlier question wrong. Go back to the screen where you entered her name and birth date. At the bottom it asks if she is adopted, a foster child, or neither of those. Did you select "A foster child"? If you select "A foster child" on that screen, it will not ask who her legal parents are.
I'm in this same situation right now. I did select "foster child" but it wants me to select his legal parents. I am stuck here. Note: in my situation though, the child lived with us all year.
For the purpose of filing your taxes, your "child" can be your:
You can skip the question on who the child's legal parents are. I did a mock-up return and was able to skip this question and successfully add a dependent.
Please choose the option that states the child is a foster child and whether the child was placed with you by an authorized placement agency, judgment, or court order.
Thank you. It keeps asking me to review that part, do I just ignore the prompts that ask me to review that at the end of filling out my return data?
Yes. Since you are both his foster parents, enter you and your spouse.
Thank you @LenaH I appreciate it.
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