Question on taxes for non-custodial parents in PA
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So, skids will be spending days here at FDH's house during summer break, on what is BMs custodial time while she is working.
One is skid is too old for daycamp ... And besides, FDH would have to pay 75% of any child-care fees, on top of his $1300 a month child support. (ugh).
We will end up feeding skids up to three meals a day at times. (BM is a master at figuring ways to make us feed them on her time. FDH hates to see his kids "starve.").
My question is, if I track what we spend on BMs custodial time, is that tax deductible? Of course there is no way to get money out of BM for this. It isn't worth even asking. She thinks it isn't her job to take care of them anyway. They are just her paycheck - but that is another story! 
Unfortunately, no. Feeding
Unfortunately, no. Feeding your kids in not tax-deductible. It sucks that she is collecting support and he is feeding them, but the state won't care.
Nope & PA is an overnight
Nope & PA is an overnight state, they won't care where he is during the day, or who feeds him. CS will only be adjusted for 40% overnights.
My question is this - if he's too old for day camp why does he NEED to come to your house. He is obviously old enough to be left alone.
There are two kids. FSS13 and
There are two kids. FSS13 and FSD11. While he is probably old enough to stay alone, she isn't. And they fight, so both of them home together is a recipe for disaster.
But there is no way that FSS is going to stay at BMs alone when SD is here. He would be missing out on an opportunity to be spoiled and waited on by FDH. Believe me, I am not at all happy about this deal. As usual, BM gets out of taking care of her own kids. I work from home, so I get to deal with them all summer.
Hee hee, you want to deduct
Hee hee, you want to deduct what SO spends to feed his own kids from his taxes? :?
Yeah, no, that won't work. Sorry. You can't even deduct the child care expenses if you aren't custodial.
So the kids will be at your
So the kids will be at your place every day the bio-mother works for the summer vacation.
Father should tell Mother that since he has all of these expenses that she will sign a statement stating that he can reduce child support by $XX.xx for each day they stay with him. Or she can find someplace else to babysit them as YOU are no longer going to do it.
I'm betting YOU're the one providing daycare for these kids. Bio-Mom should be paying YOU what she would pay a third party.
Ugh...I was thinking about
Ugh...I was thinking about this the other day...we usually have the kids 4 overnights a month and then a few hours on Thursday night during the week...now summer is here and BM's friends and family are sick of her pawning off the kids on them - she has threatened that either my not so DH gets the kids more or she is going to take him to court. There's NO custody agreement so I have been marking all the overnights they have been here in the past few months - May there were here - 8 nights, June they've already been here 5 nights and it will end up 9 nights...who the F knows how many until they go back to school...I don't mind them here - in fact I'd rather them be with us full-time and get the CS back and she can have them on the weekends...whatever. My biggest concern is that they seem to be with us overnight now than they are with her and our living situation is not ideal and they share a room with us. So he's paying her...but we seem to have them ALOT. I think we could get partial custody with this - the only issue is - when school starts - they will be going back to our regular schedule...but - she can threaten all she wants - we've been documenting and can show how much they have really been with us, text messages stored showing her threats and the PAS she inflicts on the children. And to boot...she won't even let him claim ONE of their two children come tax time...when she has a 3rd child to another guy she's not with...neat. The system is messed up.