CA tax credit help

I use to work for a very well respected accounting firm and asked them if I could claim the credit for Baby A. They originally told me "no" because I had no expenses and she wasn't special needs. After reading some things on my own, I began to suspect they were wrong and asked them if they could look into it further. They did and discovered that I could claim the entire credit because the State of California classifies virtually all children adopted from foster care as "special needs" based on "adverse parental background". One easy way to tell is if you get an adoption assistance subsidy. This means your child is classified as "special needs". For Baby A, I sent in copies of her adoption decree and adoption assistance agreement and I received the refund last week.