Child support agreement & taxes

Hi! I’m just wondering what everyone else’s agreements are when it comes to child support and taxes. My husband has 2 kids from a previous relationship. We recently moved about 2.5 hours away so obviously don’t see them as much. January-August they were with us a majority of the time. Now that we moved he sends her $900 a month. The agreement between them was always that he would claim 1 kid and she would claim the other. This year she went ahead and filed her taxes claiming both with out telling him first. Luckily he asked before we filed ours. The part I get confused about is that we’re already sending so much money a month (more than we would spend if we hadn’t moved away) but she still claims them fully. How do you guys handle this in your situation? Am I just not getting something? because it seems unfair… Should we consider getting court mandated child support?
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I guess you’d have to weigh if it would work out better for you to get courts involved. Would he have to pay more, less or about the same in child support? If he would have to pay more, would it be worth it to request to claim one child? If he would pay less or the same amount of child support, it would probably make sense to fight for him claiming one child.

You should amend your court order to include who claims whom on their taxes. If they have a history of splitting, it is lame of her to claim both without saying anything, but it is a situation that can be corrected before next year. You'll lose out on last year and be a wash in lawyer fees for this year, but it won't happen again... It really is a shame when they can't just get along. 😕

Was the agreement in writing? I would look for a child support calculator for the state where you would file the court mandated child support and see what it would be. Not going through the courts could lead to her going to child support and claiming back child support and saying you never paid her anything. Then you have to prove it was for child support and not a gift. I would get it in a court order who claims that kids on taxes and ask tag you get to claim them both next year since you couldn’t claim one this year.

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