Even though he is not a blood relation, he IRS would recognize your boyfriend as a qualifying relative as long as all of the other requirements are met. Here are the requirements to have a person be a qualifying relative: Do they live with you? Your relative must live at your residence all year or be on the list of “relatives who do not live with you” in Publication 501. About 30 types of relatives are on this list. Do they make less than $4,300 in 2020? Your relative cannot have a gross income of more than $4,300 in 2020 and be claimed by you as a dependent. Do you financially support them? You must provide more than half of your relative’s total support each year. Are you the only person claiming them? This means you can’t claim the same person twice, once as a qualifying relative and again as a qualifying child. It also means you can’t claim a relative—say a cousin—if someone else, such as his parents, also claim him.Who is a dependent

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Can I claim my disabled fiancé as a dependent (he does not work but gets monthly disability checks)? We live in Arizona

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Even though he is not a blood relation, he IRS would recognize your boyfriend as a qualifying relative as long as all of the other requirements are met.

Here are the requirements to have a person be a qualifying relative:

Do they live with you? Your relative must live at your residence all year or be on the list of “relatives who do not live with you” in Publication 501. About 30 types of relatives are on this list.
Do they make less than $4,300 in 2020? Your relative cannot have a gross income of more than $4,300 in 2020 and be claimed by you as a dependent.
Do you financially support them? You must provide more than half of your relative’s total support each year.
Are you the only person claiming them? This means you can’t claim the same person twice, once as a qualifying relative and again as a qualifying child. It also means you can’t claim a relative—say a cousin—if someone else, such as his parents, also claim him.

Who is a dependent