This is excellent - thank you!
The court order was actually from when I got divorced. We had a verbal agreement that my ex would claim all three so she could use that money to help her out and I never looked back on what the court finalized - so this is due to my oversight. Problem is, she never did that once and never told me that she wasn't claiming all of them. It wasn't until two days ago (after 8 years) that she needed info from me and it came out that I should have been claiming my girls (three split every other year). I have 50% custody.
I'm a bit irritated over the loss of 5 years of claims as that *really* added up to a lot of money. I was just as irritated that she hadn't been claiming them as she simply threw away that money for herself and my girls. Oh well - glad to hear this is a fairly easy process made extremely easy by the fact that I've been using TurboTax all these years and amendments took about 10 minutes to do for each year.
