I need to take the child tax off my return

If you have not filed your 2024 tax return, you can remove a dependent in the My Info section of the online tax return.

Click on My Info on the left side of the online program screen, while working within the 2024 tax return, to delete a dependent.

Explain why you want to do that. What is your situation?

If TurboTax is giving you a credit, it is usually not optional to forego that credit, to allow someone else to claim it. 

A common error is when unmarried parents live together,  If you and the other parent live together, only one of you can claim the child for any tax benefit.* The TurboTax interview is confusing (it's designed for divorced parents, who are allowed to split the child). The second parent should not enter the child, at all.

On the other hand, if you are the custodial parent, and are allowing the non custodial parent to claim the child this year, you should be aware that there is a special rule in the case of divorced & separated (including never married) parents. When the non-custodial parent is claiming the child as a dependent/exemption/child tax credit; the custodial parent is still allowed to claim the same child for Earned Income Credit, Head of Household filing status, and day care credit. This "splitting of the child" is not available to parents who lived together at any time during the last 6 months of the year; then only one of you can claim the child for any tax reasons. The tax benefits may not be split in any other manner.

Note in particular that the non-custodial parent can never claim the Earned Income Credit, Head of Household filing status or the day care credit, based on that child, even when the custodial parent has released the dependency to him.

*If you and the other parent live together, either one of you (but not both) may claim the child. You may decide between you which one will claim the child. Only if you can’t agree, do the IRS tie breaker rules apply, to see who has first choice. It may be worthwhile to prepare trial returns, both ways,  to see which way the family comes out best. This tool may be useful: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/calculators/taxcaster/?s=1.

In order to claim Head of Household  (HoH)  filing status, you must be claiming a related dependent and you must be the partner that paid more than half of the household expenses.