I am single father and I enjoy singular one child. My daughter lives beside me 50% of the time.?

Regardless of this I pay my ex-wife Child support for my daughter. This is base on the difference of our incomes (she is remarried and has a two income household but the decriminalized system does not account for her husband incomes contained by the calculatuion). I just have my 2006 taxes reassessed and discovered that I cannot claim my daughter as a dependent regardless of the fact that she lives beside me 50% of the time. The only defence ... I pay child supoort. I cannot see why I am anyone punished for paying child support? I currently provide greater support for my daughter then ex-wife does even next to the support I pay her. It seem very strange that if I be somehow able to procure of paying child support the CRA would reward me and allow me to claim my daughter. I just don't find it? Is there a any logical purpose that I cannot claim my daughter just because I discharge child support?


Answers:    Even though you provided greater support, as far as the courts are concerned, your ex is providing the majority of the support and your payments are supplementing that. If you are supporting her most of the time, maybe she should be paying YOU child support.

You intensely likely will not know how to claim the support payments unless you have a court charge dated before May of 1997. Your daughter would enjoy to be at least 11. Keep human being a good father - something appropriate has to come out of that. =)
Claiming your daughter have nothing to do beside child support or how much is paid. Zilch.

So that make your question NA
You carry to claim the actual support payments made, that is your claim. So you can't ALSO claim the presumption for the child herself. One only.

It's no different from other parents. They seize to claim their children, they don't ALSO get to claim the actual costs of feed and housing them. The deduction for children is intended to cover that (not that it does, but that's the principal)

Now, why you are paying to support your daughter while also looking after her yourself, isn't really clear. But specifically a separate issue from the tax claim.

Edit: Ignore the rant below me, it have no applicability (like far too many of the answers contained by CANADA), because it's referring to US law. Some those have problems reading a complete put somebody through the mill.
Same thing happen to me. I provided over 50% of the support for my children but the IRS denied my exemptions. I fought them for 4 years and came to the conclusion that I couldn't win because my ex wrongfully be given custody. The IRS goes by the divorce motion [ and any appendages] : whom has custody?

As for your request for information about any logical judgment, you won't be able to grasp out of child support payments. It's evil. Because of the radical feminists, you clear taxes on your entire income; have a portion stolen; you seize no income tax assumption; your ex does not even have to report the income and pays no levy on the income. Family law hate the Constitution and is stomping all over the Constitution.


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