I plan on moving out of my boyfriend apartment (and breaking up) in a year and moving into my own with our daughter. I asked him for example, “say it’s 2027 and I have taken care of our daughter all year prior… are we still going to split the money (child tax credit)?” He says yes because he will still be sending money to our daughter throughout the year. Is that normal? Is that what normal co-parenting is like when it comes to the child tax credit money?
Then I started to think… if I didn’t accept any of his money all year, will he still want half of the money from the child tax credit. Idk.
So I was talking my boyfriend/babydad about the child tax credit……
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Just plan on splitting it according to the amount of child support and time spent by each party. Try to make everything as fair as possible- there will get enough conflict already.
This person is the father of your child. Just in case something happens to you, the child would benefit from knowing the father- even if he is not the best person now, a lot of people improve as they mature and get older. Kids benefit from having 2 parents, even if separated, even if they are not the ideal parents.
Also, maybe he will get rich and help pay for college? If you need to go someplace on business, you have a built-in childcare. There are many benefits to keeping this person in the loop.
This is a terrible idea. Get a lawyer to start the child support proceedings and get an IP PIN for the kid so no one can claim them except you.
Why on earth would you give him any of your tax refund, unless his name is next to yours on the return then it’s all your money and he isn’t entitled to any bit of it