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If your former spouse has claim for exemption due to a divorce decree or other agreement, you won't be able to take the Child Care Credit. You will be able to take it, if you are also claiming the child.
Ordinarily, when the non-custodial parent is claiming the child as a dependent/exemption/child tax credit; the custodial parent is still allowed to claim the same child for Earned Income Credit, Head of Household filing status, and day care credit.
For the situation this year, this "splitting of the child" is not available to parents who lived together at any time during the last 6 months of the year; then only one of you can claim the child for all tax benefits of that child.
If your former spouse has claim for exemption due to a divorce decree or other agreement, you won't be able to take the Child Care Credit. You will be able to take it, if you are also claiming the child.
Ordinarily, when the non-custodial parent is claiming the child as a dependent/exemption/child tax credit; the custodial parent is still allowed to claim the same child for Earned Income Credit, Head of Household filing status, and day care credit.
For the situation this year, this "splitting of the child" is not available to parents who lived together at any time during the last 6 months of the year; then only one of you can claim the child for all tax benefits of that child.
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