What is the name of your state?TX
We have temporary order in place with me being the pri******* and we both have joint conservatorship. My STBX moved out of the house in June and left the 3 girls and her son with me. She took her son down to her parents in August. She now has standard visitation wehere she gets them 1st/3rd/5th weekend each month. My question is how do we (I) go about filing taxes this year. My wife doesn't make much normally around 10K and she has no federal taxes taken out of her checks as it comes out of mine and we normally get a refund of about 2k-3k. Can I file as married filing separately? I want to do this as she wants half of any refund we get. I think she should not as since she pays in no federal taxes she should not get half of what I am paying in. And can I claim her son as we (I) have done the past 10 years? And are there any other issues that might arise that I do not know about?
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We have temporary order in place with me being the pri******* and we both have joint conservatorship. My STBX moved out of the house in June and left the 3 girls and her son with me. She took her son down to her parents in August. She now has standard visitation wehere she gets them 1st/3rd/5th weekend each month. My question is how do we (I) go about filing taxes this year. My wife doesn't make much normally around 10K and she has no federal taxes taken out of her checks as it comes out of mine and we normally get a refund of about 2k-3k. Can I file as married filing separately? I want to do this as she wants half of any refund we get. I think she should not as since she pays in no federal taxes she should not get half of what I am paying in. And can I claim her son as we (I) have done the past 10 years? And are there any other issues that might arise that I do not know about?
Thanks