But more than 50% support applies to claiming a dependent which the father did not provide for on child 2. Are you suggesting that the father can still claim EIC on a child that he can not claim as a dependent?

The mother's income does not qualify her for EIC as it is above the threshold.

Most of my clients are not EIC eligible so I am trying to decipher the EIC rules and making sense of them from a qualifying dependent perspective.