Hi, sorry to hear about the pending divorce.
- Child support payments are not deductible to the payer (you) nor taxable to the recipient (your ex)
- Your filing status would either be Head of Household or Single if you are divorced by 12/31/22. The divorce decree may be part of deciding who can claim the child as a dependent. Consider consulting your attorney about this issue.
- If you are still married at 12/31/22 you would either continue to file jointly with your ex or use married filing separately. If you use Married filing separately, there are some tax benefits you can't get. This article does a good job of explaining the trade-offs.
- You can continue to claim your child as a dependent on your tax return if he or she lived with you for a longer period of time during the year than with your ex-spouse. In this case, you're called the custodial parent. (It's possible for the non-custodial parent to claim a dependent child if the custodial parent signs a waiver pledging that he or she won't claim it.)
- If you continue to pay a child's medical bills after the divorce, you can include those costs in your medical expense deduction even if your ex-spouse has custody of the child and claims the child as a dependent.
This article also has a lot of great tax tips and info around getting divorced.
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