i apologize in advance. i'm pissed off at taxes right now.
i am trying to do my taxes--online because i got screwed by hr block twice in two years and they didn't stand behind their guarantee. and that was when i was married. so i don't trust them not to **** it up again or anyone else for that matter. it should be really simple but when you get divorced it gets all very stupid and complicated.
here's the deal of the divorce papers: my ex gets to claim our oldest and youngest children on all further tax returns. i get to claim our middle child on all further tax returns.
sounds simple enough right?
WRONG! my ex calls and talks to someone and they say she can still claim him for head of household even though what i interpret the papers to mean is that i and i alone can only claim my son for EVERYTHING. of course he didn't live with me for any on 2010 on paper. so that screws up everything even more. i am behind in child support by almost a thousand dollars because i had to quit my last job because no one was willing to watch our children while my ex had surgery. not even for a few hours. i kept this job because i told all of them they would be left at home with no one to watch them cause i wasn't quitting my job this time. but these kids are their family too and they should stand up and show some responsibility to watch these kids because my ex has a life threatening illness that ate her skull. It was only a week she was away, and they could have been brought back at night. My youngest son had to go to another city an hour and a half away because of their stupidity and BS.
technically since i have the unfortunate "choice" of living with my ex, my son ACTUALLY DID live with me for all of 2010, but it's not like i can prove it because since i have been evicted thanks to her idiot boyfriend , i can't be on the lease, so i am not suppose to be here either.
the idiot she talked to on the phone said that she could claim our son for head of household and it would not affect my tax return. when i did a trial run on the liberty tax website and i took off the fact that "he did not live with me for the full year, it dropped my refund 1,000. Some not affecting me huh?
it didn't even bother asking about the child tax credit, or the additional child tax credit. and i don't understand why other than the fact he "didn't live with me for 2010."
even, if i told the "truth about lying" on my tax return that he actually did live with me, she would still get that money anyway because child support would take it for the arrears i owe. Even though they lied to me and said they wouldn't do that yet sent me a letter stating they would and told her that's what they would do. And I already knew from previous experience that they would.
When they drew up the papers the first time, the way they had everything for dependency claims was so jumbled, a CPA probably would have had trouble understanding it. Now that it's so simple, I believe I'm going to get screwed out of money, I believe I am rightfully owed because everybody wants to make sure I stay in this Jupiter sized hole I can't crawl out of. I need some help!! This will be the third year in a row I got screwed by somebody out of doing my name change and this year I badly need my own vehicle.
I'd call her lawyer but I don't trust getting a straight answer out of him either. He's one of those religious wing nuts that would rather I didn't have any rights to my children. Claiming my son on taxes was the only thing I got out of my sham of a divorce, but what the hell is the point of claiming him on my taxes if I don't get anything for doing so?
I know there is a form 8832 that she has to fill out so I can claim him for all the other stuff, but isn't that for if she was legally allowed to claim him on her taxes every year? She thought I was to fill out the form and I repeatedly told her that it was her that had to fill out the form because she was the custodial parent and I was not. I had to physically pull the form up on the irs website and show it to her before she would believe me.
My head hurts! My head hurts! My head hurts! My head hurts! My head hurts!
And I just want to cry buckets of tears because I'm so sick of somebody every year finding a new way to give me the biggest shaft of my life. Why the hell does it have to be so hard for me to get on with my life?
If any one knows anything please send me a message!!
Thanks,
Mekayla
