What is the name of your state? WI
I have primary physical custody of my daughter and joint legal. The current custody agreement places our daughter with me about 75% of the time and the rest with her mother. Obviously, I provide more than 50% of the support for my child financially. I keep reading everywhere that the person who provides over 50% of the support gets to claim that exemption. I am worried though that her mother will file and claim our daughter and get the exemption and the EIC.
Now, am I correct in assuming that I have the legal right here to claim our daughter?
Also, if her mother is to claim her she is obviously not going to tell me about it. Since I am assuming I have the right to claim my daughter I plan on doing it. If we both end up claiming her what will happen? I'm assuming the IRS will take some sort of action. Does anyone know what type of action that could be and the process? Would I have to do a whole lot of fighting to secure my right to claim her (assuming I'm correct that is) if this happened?
I have primary physical custody of my daughter and joint legal. The current custody agreement places our daughter with me about 75% of the time and the rest with her mother. Obviously, I provide more than 50% of the support for my child financially. I keep reading everywhere that the person who provides over 50% of the support gets to claim that exemption. I am worried though that her mother will file and claim our daughter and get the exemption and the EIC.
Now, am I correct in assuming that I have the legal right here to claim our daughter?
Also, if her mother is to claim her she is obviously not going to tell me about it. Since I am assuming I have the right to claim my daughter I plan on doing it. If we both end up claiming her what will happen? I'm assuming the IRS will take some sort of action. Does anyone know what type of action that could be and the process? Would I have to do a whole lot of fighting to secure my right to claim her (assuming I'm correct that is) if this happened?