I want to know if my Boyfriend can claim his kids on his taxes.?
155900
Unless the laws have changed, the parent who files the children first is entitled to receive the beneifits of that filing. Your boyfriend will have to pay what he owes.\n\nI know you only asked about him claiming his kids on his taxes. Have you considered your future with this man? It does not sound as if he is rolling in dough. You shouldn't be stressed with sorting out his finances.\n\nDo you realize if he dies (God forbid) that his wife and children are the beneficiaries, and you will getting nothing but memories?\n\nYou deserve better.
327664
Child support is neither deductable nor considered taxable income.  \n\nIf you pay - you cant deduct\nIf you recieve - you dont count it as income\n\nIf you are smart you have take the deduction(s) for the kid at least every other year.
86331
If you have the kids for more than six months out of the year, you can claim them.  If you contribute more than half of the support, then you can claim them.  IRS will let whoever can't claim them  know in  a heartbeat.  They did us.  We could claim them , his ex couldn't.
738584
Your story is inconsistent with normal operation for tax collectors.  You should provide more detail as to who is doing all of this stuff.  It is not at all uncommon for tax examiners to question if a child being used to qualify for Earned Income Credit lives with the taxpayer and to require some proof of that if there seems to be a question.  If children are removed from the taxpayers home by a social service agency that has nothing to do with the "tax collector".
415368
It depends if your state has community property law.  If it does than his debt is now your debt as well and you will be responsible to pay for it.  If you do not live in a community property state than file and injured spouse form and you will get your share of the taxes. You can also file separate.  Best advice is to let them take your share until all of the back child support is caught up.  As soon at that happens the garnishments on his paycheck won't be as much because he will just be paying current support.
642932
REcommend  you and your parents got to the IRS website and research....There is a lot of information and different scenarios - if you don't want to spend the time, just call the IRS they can be most helpful.  Here is an example of info avail on the website.\n\n\nTax Trails - Can You Include Your Child's Income On Your Tax Return? \n  \nTo make the election to include your child's income on your return, your child's income must be below the maximum dollar amount allowed for the tax year being filed. The maximum dollar amount allowed for the tax year being filed can be found in Part 2, Tax on Investment Income of Child Under 14, of Publication 929,Tax Rules for Children and Dependents. Publication 929 is available for download, or you may request a copy by calling 1-800-829-3676.
11085
You have to include the household income of the parent you're living on right now. You can also check which one of them have you as a direct dependant on their tax return. Not both of them can have you there and the government will also use that information as a decision point.
80675
You need a family law lawyer.  He should have methods of finding those things out.
72037
First off if he has supported the child for 51 % of the time,  (ex. clothing, utilities, daycare, insurance, medical, dental etc.) then yes he can claim the child but only if he has supported the child for 51% also if you claim him first before he gets to file then when he goes to claim the child there will be a flag that the child has already been claimed and cannot be claimed again. And yes you can claim the child afterwards if you do report him but never let anyone else get that childs ss#. Also if this is a child between the two of you then if he gets a paternity test and establishes paternity to the child then you may have to split the filing of the child from year to year like ane year he does then you the next or maybe he will let you claim him and nothing be said but that is something that the two of you should work out. One last thing before I go I would look into this further and contact an tax and accounting agent to find out more and also contact a lawyer if you don't want to be with this man and get things rolling in your favor before this boy-friend beats you to the punch, and before you get to talk to anyone about what is going on. If he also establishes paternity then you can also get him for child support. Good luck hun and I sure hope that things go wonderful for you and that precious baby boy of yours.
374644
I really sujest that you seek the advice of a tax attorney rather than a CPA on this one; asthis goes a little further than just taxes.\n\nOn the durface though, it seems simply that you can each take  turns claiming the child on a semi annual basis.  It would be in your best interest to get this in writing in your divorce decree and spell out the terms of the agreement.  On the years where the other party is claiming the child but you are still payaing 50% of the expenses, then there is not much you can do about that.  You don't want to report it as income to the other party, as this will reduce the tax benefits of your child, and inturn do the same to you.  In which case, then why go through this thing at all?\n\nHope this helps a little?\nGood Luck
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Can't claim a spouse as dependent.  \n\nThe IRS has a number of tests to determine qualifying dependents.  See link at http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc354.html\n\n"The first test is the member of household or relationship test. To meet this test, a person must either live with you for the entire year as a member of your household or be related to you. The Form 1040 Instructions and Form 1040A Instructions list all relatives who meet the relationship test. Your spouse is never considered your dependent."\n\nYou might look up on IRS site if it would be beneficial for you to claim as 'Head of Household" though.
1144301
I depends on if you have children, if so you can claim them other than that your spouse and/or yourself. From experience you may just want to claim yourself because I had problems
279649
Sorry, you have no recourse. Even if it was your tax preparers idea, you are responsible for checking the tax return before you sign it and mail it. The same child(ren) cannot be claimed on 2 different income tax returns and you knew your boyfriend was claiming the kids, so you should have told the tax preparer that they had already been claimed on anothers tax return.
832824
In order to claim Head of Household when you are not married, you need to have a related dependent whom lives with you for at least 6 months and you pay for over 1/2 the costs of the home during that time.  It could be an uncle, aunt, son, daughter, brother, sister, etc., but not a cousin.  They basically need to be related by blood.  So, the wife of your mother's brother doesn't count.  Like I said, they also need to be your dependent.  Now, if they are your parent, there is an exception where they don't need to live with you.  As long as they are your dependent and you pay for at least 1/2 the costs of wherever they are living (apartment, retirement home, etc.) for the ENTIRE year, you can file as head of household.\n\nIf you are married, the rules all change.  Since you said you were not married, I won't go into those rules here.\n\nFiling as Single is not so bad.\n\nBy the way, basically if you have no credits, dependents, or other income, and you use the standard deduction, and you only work one job at a time (you don't have a 2nd job), you would do well claiming Single 1 on your W-4.  If you want, you can use the attached IRS calculator (given to me by SteveF) to figure out the optimum withholding allowance on your W-4.\n\nCan you claim your boyfriend as a dependent?  You have to live with him all year AND he needs to have less than $3,300 of income AND you must support over 1/2 of his living expenses.  If he earns over $3,300, all bets are off.  If you could claim him, could you use him for Head of Household?  No.  Why?  He is not related to you.  For verification, please see Publication 17 (link below).
933636
You should probably contact the Child Support Agency for further information if your husband has agreed maintenance payments with them.  FSee below for the link.
330549
If it is not in your custody order, you get to claim him.  If you read the tax laws, the parent that the child lives with more gets to claim the child.\n\nSometimes in it ordered in divorce or custody papers that the parents will share the exemptions if there is more than one child, or alternate years, but if this has not been put on paper, you have the right under federal law to claim the child.\n\nMy dial up is too slow to download the .pdf file, but click the link below and you can flip to the part that talks about the child tax credit.  It goes into how to handle the credit if there are two seperate parents involved.  But I can tell you from experience, the simple answer is that you get to claim the child.
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I dont think you can claim foster kids as a dependant...I may be wrong...but i think that since the income you get for them isnt taxable...you cant claim them.