Taxes - Free Advice
Ladies - After being on this site for so many year, every year we see one or two on here, whose DH waited to file taxes and BM claimed the kids and she got the deduction. Causes paperwork hell. My advice to all of you is to file ASAP and cut her off at the knees. Just my two cents after seeing it every single year and the frustration from the step when her return is all screwed up.
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YUP. it sucks waiting on
YUP. it sucks waiting on that. those, and the docs from the bank with your interest amts.
as a matter of fact, we JUST got notice that in '13 "someone" else claimed oss. this is gonna get interesting...
it'll be interesting this
it'll be interesting this year when we claim all three - i'm sure she will too, but the final co was signed back in march so that'll be easy peasy.
dh has primary custody. no
dh has primary custody. no visitation is set up for oss or mss, but yss is eowe (supposed to be, but she never shows).
i believe the first order (the temp) mentioned that oss had been living with us full time since april '13 and mss and yss since august '13. i'll have to dig it out and double check the wording.
hell, the bitch doesnt even have an address to get a return in the mail!
I don't have to worry about
I don't have to worry about that one because Chef LETS the BM claim the two remaining spawn. He rolled over once again instead of saying "I'll claim SD and you claim YSS"
And then when it's down to one, he WON'T be saying to the BM "we'll need to rotate claiming YSS--here's the schedule"
When DH and BM got divorced,
When DH and BM got divorced, each person was to claim each child, BM had OSD and DH had YSD, that worked out fine and simple until OSD was old enough to get a job and file her own taxes. Then, BM states "You don't pay your half of the medical bills so I'm claiming YSD on my taxes" Yes, DH is supposed to pay half of all medical fees, but, in his defense, he can't pay what he doesn't know he owes..for some reason he NEVER gets any statements for YSD..it's like she never goes to the DR. I guess if he wanted to start claiming YSD on taxes again, he'd have to do all the work and find out who her doctor is and start paying his half. I don't press the issue because it seems to be an agreement DH and BM can both live with..I just wish he would get his half of the medical bills so that BM wouldn't get the satisfaction of being able to claim YSD when according to a COURT ORDER she's not supposed to...sometimes those two (DH and BM) are so difficult lol
That's true, that's another
That's true, that's another reason I don't bring up the whole "taxes and medical expenses" issue. They seem to agree on the way it is now. But there is the bitter "new wife" side of me that thinks BM is getting the better end of the deal. But, since we're not really being financially impacted by the way things are, I'll just mind my own business.
Exactly, the BM in my case
Exactly, the BM in my case should have realized that there would be a time when the child she's supposed to claim (OSD) would be old enough to file for herself. But, I blame DH too. If he would have done some of his own footwork, got the medical bills and paid the half he was supposed to, he wouldn't have had to give BM the satisfaction of claiming YSD and having everything her way...like it always is lol