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When I error check my return, it's showing something wrong with Form 8853, wherein it thinks my husband is being claimed as a dependent on someone else's return. He's not

Some details: Regular 1040; married filing separately. Only my HSA information is included at this time, but I did crunch the numbers as a married-joint account with both our incomes before we settled on MFS.
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When I error check my return, it's showing something wrong with Form 8853, wherein it thinks my husband is being claimed as a dependent on someone else's return. He's not

I solved the issue. I had to go into the Tax Tools (?)  menu on the left and manually delete the form in question. Turns out that when you enter info and remove it later, it leaves the forms in place.

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