The stimulus money for a qualifying child is linked to the child tax credit. So if your ex gets the child tax credit for 2020 he gets the stimulus money for the child too--- even if you got it already last year. They do not make you pay it back. There is an oddity in the way they wrote the stimulus bill that lets divorced parents get that money for the same child if they are claiming the child for the following year.
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