Which parent should claim advance child tax credit, married filing jointly with two kids

[DoninGA]

Filing jointly it does not matter which parent received the advance child tax credit.  You report the payments received when asked by the program.

[Mike9241]

if you're filing jointly it won't matter.

[nov_284]

If I put it in as each of us receiving the credit, the program doubles it. We received $500 total, but when I put it into the program it asks if $1000 is correct. 

Super annoying; I tried to opt out of the payments totally specifically to avoid this problem. I mean, I didn’t see *this* problem coming, but I knew it was going to be something. 

[fanfare]

There is no problem.

On a joint return, your family gets the credit per child.

You enter the numbers only once.

[fanfare]

if somehow you both applied for and both received the credit per child,

you'll have to pay back half of it.