Thank you.
We have decided, to avoid accidentally breaking laws, to see how much my husband and I qualify for without claiming our children, subtract that from the total after he claims all four, and give my brother half of the difference. My brother will still be filing his own taxes, but without claiming any of the children.
Also to clarify for anyone, he’s MY brother, not my husband’s. And they make the same amount of money as they are coworkers on the same crew, I myself do not work because the cost of childcare in my area is much higher than minimum wage, so there’s no income to combine.
