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Bob J Bruehl
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I currently have two stepchildren from my second wife. One is 9 and one is 12. My wife has been legally divorced from the children's father for about 6 years now. They had joint custody of the two children but he could claim them as his dependants even though they live with us. He would have them every other weekend throughout the year and about 1 week in the summer. He was remarried and living out of town. In August of 2000, he was killed in a car accident. My question is, can we now claim them as our dependants for the year 2000?? His new wife states that she can claim them because it happened in August which was over half the year. It does'nt seem right that she is not their natural mother and she would get to claim them. (Besides that, they were in the process of a divorce.) Would'nt the law "default" back to their natural mother? What gives???