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If memory serves, you have to use an amended return though I'm not sure how the system works with changing a dependent claim.
three years
If the child was a dependent, yes.
If your child lived with you but you did not claim it as a dependent you can still file head of household. You have to list the child's name and social security number on your return.
As part of some custody arrangements in the Divorce Decree, you may find that each parent will get the right to claim the children on taxes in alternate years. This helps to distribute the tax exemptions fairly.
How many years??
For federal income tax purpose she and the child would not meet the rules for the child to be her qualifying child dependent that she would be able to claim on her 1040 income tax return. Perhaps she is just realizing and claiming the child as her own child after seven years of absence for some personal reasons.
It means you are accepting financial responsibility for the child at least until that child is eighteen years of age.
Yes, as long as they meet the requirements needed to perfect a claim in your jurisdiction.Yes, as long as they meet the requirements needed to perfect a claim in your jurisdiction.Yes, as long as they meet the requirements needed to perfect a claim in your jurisdiction.Yes, as long as they meet the requirements needed to perfect a claim in your jurisdiction.
Depends on the situation. Some states allow you to pay the taxes on abandoned properties for up to five years, and in in some states it's up to 7 years, if and when you have occupied the property and have actually been paying the taxes and it hasn't been claimed by anybody else. But, just because you decided to become a squatter and have not done anything legally, such as paying the taxes for the property, does not give you the right to claim a property as your own. Check with your state's laws.
If she's kept the claim current.
your not notified when the non-custodial parent files their taxes and your not entitled to notification. if you are worrying about the parent filing and claiming your child/children there is really no way other then whomever files first with the childs social security number will force the 2nd parent filings to be kicked back because the child has already been claimed. to correct that you need to provide legal court documents saying you have the right to claim the child that year and it is a long drawn out process. unfortunately the IRS has NO WAY of knowing who is legally entitled to claim which child which years