NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/childsu/4702

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Newsgroups: alt.child-support
Subject: claiming fed tax exemption
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Date: 26 Jan 93 21:26:00 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University
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If, when calculating which party is responsible for what percentage of the
children's support (as one must do in Arizona to figure the amount of
support to be paid), the father is responsible for 70% of the children's
support, should he not be entitled to claim both children as exemptions
on his tax return?  The current form from IRS says he has to plead with
the ex to get her to give him a letter so he can claim them on his tax
return.  His salary is $1500 per month while hers is $700.  Doesn't she
has to prove that she not only spent all of his $5000 in support checks on
the children, matched it with her own $5000 and exceeded that in order

to claim the children on her own return?  She does not want to give him any
of the two exemptions because she does not want to lose any of the EIC
credit on her return ($1350 credit, which would be decreased by $50 if
she gives her ex one of the two exemptions).  If the father is able to
claim one child, his tax liability will be decreased by $1000.

Doesn't he legally have a right to claim at least one of the children?
She lives in a $300 per month mortgaged home which she shares with her
male lover and his two children, plus her own.  Would she not have a hard
time proving she spent in excess of $10,000 on the support of her own

two children?  She dresses them shabbily and with clothing picked up
from outlet stores.

Any suggestions here?
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