In the case of divorce, who claims the children as dependents?
You dealing with a situation where you're divorced and you've children. The question is who gets to claim those children as dependents. Typically, it's the custodial parent who gets to claim the children. You look at it again, not to sound sexist, from the stand point husbands are paying child support, children are living with the wife. Normally it would be the wife because she is the custodial parent, gets to claim the children on her tax return. However, if the paperwork that the divorce decree says, "as long as the husband is paying the child's support he's entitle to claim the children on his tax return, even though they're living with the wife", then it may be the husband who is entitle to claim the children. If the decree is silent it going to fall to custodial parent regardless who is paying their support. Again, we are talking about divorce and we're talking about dependent children. It's starting to get into complex issues that you really need to sat down with a professional who can read through the document and advice you the best way to proceed.
