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Originally Posted by Mike Oxlong
I was just researching that on the net and saw the law had been changed. As I said my mother fought the government on thast when we were young and looks like the law has changed since then.
Correct me if I am wrong but now it looks like the fathers are no longer allowed to write off child support payments? Would they not be able to claim their kids as dependants if the family was still together? They should still receive the same write offs for the kids as they have in the past whether the kids live with them or not.
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The tax laws for support payments and recipients changed at the same time. As soon as recipients no longer had to claim child support as income, the feds took away the ability to claim payments as a tax deduction. There is a grandfather clause for tax deductable support payments on court ordered agreements that were signed before the law changed.