Tax question - claim fiance as dependant?

[Born2bwire]

This is simple:

Read the statutes. No definition of lewd nor lascivious exist anywhere in the statutes, so what would happen is the judge or jury would open the dictionary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewd

Note:



There is your definition. Cohabitation without marriage is lascivious in and of itself.

Anyone else care to challenge this archaic ass law that use to read:




798.02 and 798.01 are most often used by husbands seeking divorce and wishing to avoid paying alimony to the wife who is now shacking up with another dude.

But that requires sexual intercourse for it to be lascivious and the latter states that they spend the night in the same room. If the OP and his fiance live in separate rooms and there isn't an open sexual relationship how is it lascivious? What is Florida's current legal precedent for a lewd and lascivious behaviour?

 

[JulesMaximus]

It all runs together after awhile.

Which is why you really want to get someone who knows what they're doing when it comes to taxes. I studied this for a while and spent a couple years doing tax returns (this was 6+ years ago) and it will make your head swim...plus, the laws change every year.

You really need to do your homework. Best I've found is to read the tax code as it applies to you and then hire a professional. DO NOT RELY ON WHAT YOU READ ON THE INTERNET!!! A quick google search on head of household and dependent exemptions will give you tons of conflicting information on how to file.

When in doubt, go to www.irs.gov. The answers to all your questions are there.

True story: I worked with a single woman who had nothing but two dogs living with her and her tax preparer had her filing as head of household...tells you what some people who claim to be professionals know about tax law. Despite my advise she continued to trust this person to do her taxes for her.

 

[Mill]

Which is why you really want to get someone who knows what they're doing when it comes to taxes. I studied this for a while and spent a couple years doing tax returns (this was 6+ years ago) and it will make your head swim...plus, the laws change every year.

You really need to do your homework. Best I've found is to read the tax code as it applies to you and then hire a professional. DO NOT RELY ON WHAT YOU READ ON THE INTERNET!!! A quick google search on head of household and dependent exemptions will give you tons of conflicting information on how to file.

When in doubt, go to www.irs.gov. The answers to all your questions are there.

True story: I worked with a single woman who had nothing but two dogs living with her and her tax preparer had her filing as head of household...tells you what some people who claim to be professionals know about tax law. Despite my advise she continued to trust this person to do her taxes for her.

Thanks, but I have my certs and do this for a living. I misspoke while doing about 10 different things in addition to replying to this thread. I was trying to explain to the OP that marriage was one of the only legal ways to reduce his tax burden (other than scrounging for personal or business deductions). I never meant to say he could use her to claim HOH. You can only do that when married in certain situations, and his is certainly not one of them. I actually have the HOH issues quite often -- two spouses (one has social and one has ITIN). They cannot get EITc unless both have socials. So, many try to say one is HOH and the other is MFS. Completely wrong unless one is a non-resident alien and treated as such. In that case EITC is still excluded but HOH may apply.