I am a stay at home mom to disabled son and have 2 additional children. I don’t make enough income to claim my children or even file my taxes. But everytime their dad tried (even before the new laws) he got audited. So we haven’t been able to claim our children for 8+ years. I’ve been doing research about the form 8332 - since he doesn’t reside with us - but still is often here to spend time with our kids and takes care of their needs. He even has all his mail mailed to our address bc he bounces from place to place & often those places don’t worry about him receiving his mail. So his mailing address is my/our kids but he doesn’t live in same household. Just get mail here for his safety bc he knows it will get to his hands not lost. We don’t have child support nor any court order visitations in place as that’s not needed - he gets them whenever they want or need. So how, if any way, can my kids dad claim our children. No one else can claim them (including me). So if he works and supports them OUTSIDE my household - why can’t he claim them? Or why has he been audited for claiming them before ? We even had to provide birth certificates for our sons to prove he was their biological father. - our daughter is 3. So she’s never been claimed before. He’s always scared to be audited bc everytime he’s claimed them that’s what happens. Even before the child must live w you for 6+m out of the year law. Please walk me step by step thru to allowing my kids father to claim his own children?
