I'm sorry weslilient, but you are incorrect. When a child is the qualifying child dependent of more than one person in the same household, only one person can claim the child as a dependent and that person is the only one who can claim the other benefits of the dependent, including the EIC, CDCC, CTC, etc. You cannot split the child benefits among the potential claimants and more than one person cannot claim the same benefits. The only time that benefits can be split is if the custodial parent transfers the dependency exemption to the noncustodial parent. Then the noncustodial parent can claim the dependency exemption and the CTC while the custodial parent can claim the EIC and CDCC. But this does not apply when both parents are custodial parents in the same household.
