Discussion:Claiming Grandchildren as dependents
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| {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=CATAXES|Date=29 January 2008|Text=6 mos in home needed for QC, but still may qualify as dependents (see qualifying relatives) if you look at gross income and support tests. You might also consider the possibility of counting any days prior to July 16 when grandchildren were visiting. You only need a few. }} | {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=CATAXES|Date=29 January 2008|Text=6 mos in home needed for QC, but still may qualify as dependents (see qualifying relatives) if you look at gross income and support tests. You might also consider the possibility of counting any days prior to July 16 when grandchildren were visiting. You only need a few. }} | ||
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| + | {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=Ucimnemc|Date=29 January 2008|Text=I don't think you can consider the children as "QC". However, Pub 17, page 29, under the section "Not A Qualifying Child Test", Example 4 is almost directly on point. If they can meet the gross income and support tests, the grandparents may still be able to claim them as "Qualifying Relatives" since they are considered "Relatives who do not have to live with you" (Pub 17, page 30).}} | ||
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| 29 January 2008 | |
| The grandparents took custody from foster homes, by State court directive, their daughter's four children, on July 16, 2007. For 2007 are they entitled to claim them as dependents on their tax return. The children lived with the grandparents a few days less than half the year.
Otherwise they meet the tests to be a qualifying child. | |
| 29 January 2008 | |
| 6 mos in home needed for QC, but still may qualify as dependents (see qualifying relatives) if you look at gross income and support tests. You might also consider the possibility of counting any days prior to July 16 when grandchildren were visiting. You only need a few. | |
| 29 January 2008 | |
| I don't think you can consider the children as "QC". However, Pub 17, page 29, under the section "Not A Qualifying Child Test", Example 4 is almost directly on point. If they can meet the gross income and support tests, the grandparents may still be able to claim them as "Qualifying Relatives" since they are considered "Relatives who do not have to live with you" (Pub 17, page 30). | |
