I personally think that non-received child support ought to be able to be counted on your taxes as a tax credit...ie, I did NOT get the 4K a year support for our child that I should have gotten, and therefore I DO get an extra tax credit of 4K because my DH and I worked our asses off to take care of both kids...

Wow. I've never heard of something like this. So does this mean CS doesn't come out of your DH's pay checks for the rest of the month?

Child support isn't considered taxable income as it goes towards the expenses of children. Alimony however is a different story.

Oh, that scares me because DH's court stuff shows he's always in arrears 110.00 (not sure how they came up with that number), when in fact he's overpaid...aholes they are...and sometimes it is higher at the begining of the month and middle of the month for a few days until they receive CS because idiots make it "due" the day DH gets paid, when of course, it takes them a few days to receive it from the employer...freaking amazing...

So when we lived in the US, every freaking check my DH deposited into his bank account was always delayed because it always showed he was behind...

I am really sick of this crap...it's on his credit report because BM lied, even though we later proved he didn't owe anything...I have no freaking idea how the heck we will now get a house...we basically lost ours because could not continue the payments after she messed up his credit, interest rates on credit cards through the roof for her lying to the courts, etc...and now, how can we possibly ever get a loan after all this? I hate this woman with a passion...someday I will tell her off...as soon as CS is over DH knows that I plan on sending his daughter all the papers of what that witch has done to us so that she can then keep her mouth shut when she decides to bad mouth us...

I worked for child support, and I'll tell you everything ad I mean EVERYTHING with acception to entering new cs orders is 6 months to 2 years behind. There just isnt enough workers to keep up with all the info going in with changed and adjustements and orders for excecution such as the tax and property leans etc. So everyhting could very well be on its way to corrections, and literally take 2 years to correct. Its a mess. One office never knows what the other is doing and offices are never all updated at the same time. Good luck to you. I feel for all on both sides. I've talked to the loosers who dont want to pay for their kids, the men who do and get screwed with the messed up system and the mothers who are effected as well. IT trully is a mess.

~Chrissie

Loving Wife to my hubby, Mother and friend to our darlings.

We have my SD 50% of the time & BM still gets CS because she is the custodial parent (they have joint custody) It's a really f*d up system!!!!

There are some people who want this government to take over health care.

So just as a silly question - it seems like this is a big issue for most couples on here so would it not be easier (yes, perhaps a little less beneficial financially) to just file separately from your spouse to begin with?

Since my SO will need to send a copy of his tax returns to BM every year we have discussed once married either filing separately or 'blacking out' everything except for his income (realize this won't help the 'taking of the refund', but we don't want her to know how much I make or how much interest we may be paying on a house, or other itemized deductions, etc)...

Any thoughts?

beaaccountable - calling CS and asking for a supervisor is POINTLESS, the will get a floor walker "suprvisor" witch is someone whos worked there for at least 6 monts and is raandonly chosen from the other Customer service reps (thre is a huge flor of them, anywhere from 50-70) every friday for the following week. They choose 5 "floor supervisors" who get off the phone time to be the "supervisor". I worked for the cs helpine and thats where all cs calls go now Best bet..go to court have a judge place ANYTHING you want or need in writing and court orderd..its the only way to get something corrected n CS as close to immediatly as you can get.

Loving Wife to my hubby, Mother and friend to our darlings.

The recipient pays the taxes on the alimony the payer pays the taxes on CS. Just the way it goes. basically the assumption is the person paying CS would be spending that money on the child if the child lived full time in their home. That money that would be spent on the child would be money AFTER taxes so the payer must pay the taxes on the CS.

Of you could be in my shoes when we had SS full-time his BM paid exactly $130 a month for the last year and before that she was paying $50 a month.

Also can't you have the removal of child support changed? Prior to having SS full-time we were getting child support taken out weekly but when DH went to a job that paid once a month we had our lawyer draw up new paperwork that stated that we'd pay only once a month at the end of the month

Don't you love how they think that $120/month is enough to support a child. Heck he eats more than that in a week

Our BM can't hold down a job and is living on state aid just to keep from having to pay out a dime to support her own child. You'd think after years of milking the state that they'd finally tell her to get a job but of course not she just keeps poping out kids and getting more state aid.

They do have to claim it, at least in california they do.

I don't understand why you are getting dinged in your refund though, it doesn't make any sense.