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📊 Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Enter the required days on CA 3532 Line 5

Use this when you need to provide the missing required field for e-file validation.

Enter the number of days the qualifying person lived with the Taxpayer in CA 3532 Line 5.

Step 2: If the qualifying person did not live with the Taxpayer, plan for paper filing

Use this when the qualifying person lived with the taxpayer for 0 days.

If the person did not lived with the taxpayer ( 0 days ), the return will have to be paper filed since it is an E-filing requirement to enter the number of days.

📚 Additional Information: Head of Household (HOH) Filing Status

You may qualify for HOH filing status if all of the following apply.

• You were unmarried and not an RDP, or met the requirements to be considered unmarried or considered not in a registered domestic partnership on the last day of the year.
• You paid more than one-half the costs of keeping up your home for the year.
• Your home was the main home for you and a qualifying person who lived with you for more than half the year.
• The qualifying person was related to you and met the requirements to be a qualifying child or qualifying relative. (For a qualifying relative, see the instructions for Part III, line 4, Gross Income.)
• You were entitled to a Dependent Exemption Credit for your qualifying person. However, you do not have to be entitled to a Dependent Exemption Credit for your qualifying child if you were unmarried and not an RDP, and your qualifying child was also unmarried and not an RDP.
• You were not a nonresident alien at any time during the year.
• You paid more than half the cost of a qualifying persons total support.
• Your qualifying person is a citizen or national of the United States, or a resident of the U.S., Canada, or Mexico.
• If you, your spouse/RDP, or your qualifying person who lived with you was absent from your home during the year, see the definition for temporary absence in FTB Pub. 1540, Tax Information for Head of Household Filing Status. If your qualifying person is your father or mother, see the definition for Parent/Stepparent (Father or Mother) in FTB Pub. 1540.

 

(https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2022/2022-3532-instructions.html#B-Qualifications)

 

If the qualifying person is your father/mother:

Parent/Stepparent (Father or Mother)

Stepparents are treated the same as parents for tax purposes. If you were unmarried and not an RDP, you may be eligible for the head of household filing status even if your father or mother did not live with you. However, your parent must have been a citizen or national of the United States, or a resident of the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

 

You must be entitled to claim a Dependent Exemption Credit for your parent. That is, your parent must meet the requirements of a qualifying relative and you must have paid more than half the cost of keeping up a home that was your parents main home for the entire year. Your parents main home could have been his or her own home, such as a house or apartment, or could have been any other living accommodation.

 

(https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2021/2021-1540.html#ParentStepparentFatherorMother)

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