Thanks for the quick reply.

I wasn't doing their returns back then.

Also, up until this year, they had no tax liability, nor did they have adoption expenses.

But because the kids are special needs, the credit should be available regardless of having expenses or not.

These kids fall within eligibility with everything you explained - but the ProSeries software is not giving them the credit, and I thought I was missing something.

I'll have to check with the software folks to see if I am missing something.

Thanks again...