Client and his ex have been each claiming 1 child the past few years. This year his ex claimed both kids. He has a Child Custody Order from the court showing Joint custody. Can we paper file with the order? Is that sufficient to claim the child?
You would paper file. No need to include anything because they won't read it.
Both parents will eventually receive a notice from the IRS (often a year or more) asking the parents to "prove" that they are eligible to claim the child.
The order is completely irrelevant. Go through the requirements for claiming a dependent. What matters to the IRS is physical custody (number of nights) not whatever a judge put on a piece of paper.
Yeah but Michele is the wizard of the interactive wizards.
Unfortunately, sometimes those "wizards" are not accurate. I don't remember which one, but there is at least one that handles Social Security wrong (it doesn't deal with the non-taxable Social Security correctly).
You would paper file. No need to include anything because they won't read it.
Both parents will eventually receive a notice from the IRS (often a year or more) asking the parents to "prove" that they are eligible to claim the child.
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