Child Tax Credit and Child Support?

I pay child support to my ex husband for our three daughters. Due to his ever increasing greed of money I am not allowed to claim any of them on my taxes for EIC benefits. Am I still allowed to claim one of them for Child Tax Credit even though she lived with me less than half the year (as a non-dependent credit)? Will that affect his filing of his taxes claiming all three of them?

Child Tax Credit and Child Support?
if you both claim them, you will both be audited by the IRS.





if you want to be able to claim the children, take it to court. get a court order stating that every other year is your turn.... or you get to claim on the 'even' years.





doesnt hurt to try.





some IRS links to help anwer your questions.





TAX INFO


http://www.taxsites.com/index.htm


http://www.divorceinfo.com/taxes.htm


http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc354.html


http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc422.html


http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq4-5.html


http://www.irs.gov/localcontacts/index.h...


http://www.irs.gov/advocate/index.html


http://www.irs.gov/publications/p525/ind...


http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/offsets_chi...


http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/14/pf/taxes...
Reply:You can't claim the child tax credit for a child who didn't live with you for over half of the year unless you can also claim that child as a dependent.
Reply:Court order will decide who can claim what
Reply:No. You can't claim child tax credit (OR EIC, for that matter) for a child that did not live with you most of the year.
Reply:No you can't claim her, she has to be claimed as a dependant on your return to be able to do that, and if he is the one allowed to claim all of the children, the IRS will audit both of your returns and if they find that you claimed fraudulently you will owe any money you got back plus penalties and interest