Getting screwed by ex wife Tax Question?

Was clueless when went mediation. Now i understand would have been like 600.00 dollars extra for her by claiming 3rd child but for me i have to pay additional 4k. I get it i was trying to be social with her and tell her i would pay her the 600.00 so i could claim the 3rd child but like others have told me i have to threat this like a business. I get it now i understand thats why i am going back to court. Bitches be crazy and me just being stupid.

You must have done something pretty shitty for her to be so mean to you.

I forgot about the oldest staying with you.

That's just a shitty situation man. I'm no tax expert so I don't know if there's anything you can do. Good luck

I paid her full child support for all three even when my oldest stayed with me. Just so i could see my othet two. She even trying claiming all 3 last year on taxes but wasnt allowed be cause i told her he was living with me.

To the poster that said i was shitty to her. Wrong even her family took my side because she cheated on me. Has gone out of her way to frick me over after the divorce also.

Do your taxes now, claim which kids you want to claim, and the IRS will deny the last to file/claim.

Then she will have to negotiate with you when she is enlightened on what she will spend hiring a lawyer when you take her back to court!!

AND, she won't have the refund in her pocket while this debate is going on.

DO NOT PLAY NICE, YOU WILL LOSE!!!!

I fought and I won! She let's me claim our daughter because the private school increase over the years is $300/mnth which I would use against her IF she were dumb enough to take me to court over claiming my daughter.

I pay the extra school $ and she stays quiet...I think I still come out behind, but court is expensive.

Doesn't work exactly like that. His ex has legal papers that state she gets to claim them. He can file whenever he wants. All she has to do after that is send in her return with a copy of the legal papers and she will get to claim them. They will then go after him to recoup the money. Just because you claim first doesn't mean you get to legally claim them. If their are no legal papers, then it goes off of who supports the child the most. Just because you pay child support doesn't mean you support them the most.

Support is funny. Say you pay 20k in child support. They will also take into account her support. She provides a house, electricity, food, and all other stuff. This all adds up. Just $1k mortgage/rent and $500 in food is $18k. This doesn't count other household bills she has. Majority of the time, if there are no legal papers stating who claims, if the child is with one parent for over 6 months in the year that parent will get to claim. Now, to prove this, they will want school records and such. If you can't prove to the IRS that the chaild lived with you for more than 6 months, it will be a lost cause. I know this because my ex claimed our son first. When I filed with e-file, it got kicked back because the ss number for my son was used all ready. We did not have anything stating who gets to claim. I had to send in his school records and our custody agreement(I am the domicile parent for the school months, her for the summer). I got my money in December with interest and she had to repay.
Since there is a legal agreement, you would have to get that changed.

The more I read this board and others, divorce scares the crap out of me

Really makes one think twice about marriage. That is insane