While communicating with an ex can certainly have its challenges, effective co-parenting is a must for divorced parents. When serious co-parenting mistakes are made, they can wreak havoc on a…
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Minnesota law supports the idea that both parents are financially responsible for any child that they have together. The father traditionally paid child support to the mother of the children….
Child support is one of the key issues that must be decided in a divorce because children are always entitled to have financial support from both their mother and from…
If two people have a child together who they are not raising in one household, then issues of both child custody and child support must be determined. Â Child support in…
Who Gets To Claim The Kids After The Divorce? It’s not uncommon for there to be some dispute about who gets to claim the children for tax purposes. Over the years I have heard many myths about who gets to claim what for taxes, some people think it’s automatically split equally, others say that if you pay child support you get to claim the kids every year, both of these are only partially correct. First, let’s look at the IRS regulations. The Internal Revenue Code 152(c)(3)(a) says that the custodial parent gets to claim the child unless the parent “affirmatively …
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Who Gets To Claim The Kids After The Divorce? It’s not uncommon for there to be some dispute about who gets to claim the children for tax purposes. Â Over the years I have heard many myths about who gets to claim what for taxes, some people think it’s automatically split equally, others say that if you pay child support you get to claim the kids every year, both of these are only partially correct. First, let’s look at the IRS regulations. Â The Internal Revenue Code 152(c)(3)(a) says that the custodial parent gets to claim the child unless the parent “affirmatively …
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Parenting, Soviet-Style–in the U.S. Or, how much money do you really have for child support? If a married couple in Minnesota gets a divorce and child support is awarded, the amount awarded largely depends on the parties’ incomes. So, say you’re a soon-to-be ex-husband and the court is awarding child support to your ex-wife. If you want to minimize your child support obligation, what do you do? What can you do? You could always move to Bora Bora and change your name, but that’s not very responsible or ethical. Perhaps a better and more appropriate way to do this …
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Parenting, Soviet-Style–in the U.S. Or, how much money do you really have for child support? ; If a married couple in Minnesota gets a divorce and child support is awarded, the amount awarded largely depends on the parties’ incomes. So, say you’re a soon-to-be ex-husband and the court is awarding child support to your ex-wife. If you want to minimize your child support obligation, what do you do?  What can you do?  You could always move to Bora Bora and change your name, but that’s not very responsible or ethical.  Perhaps a better and more appropriate way to do this …
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