Goodbye skid free mondays
BM offered to keep taking SD an extra day a week like she has been the last probably 6 months or so for different after school activities. DH said no because he thinks she just wants to claim her on taxes every year with using having her more as the justification.
It was probably the right thing to tell her no, but I'm still disappointed. Having the extra day skid free was nice. I dont see what the point is as far as DH goes other than power struggling BM because it's an extra like 2 hours that he will even see her and she will just be on her tablet most of that time anyway.
On another note, does anyone else feel like the older the skid gets the last able they are to tolerate them? Idk if its just because an 8 year old pulling the same crap as when they were 4 is more annoying or if its built up from over time or both.
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In their court order or
In their court order or divorce it doesn't state who gets to claim the child on their taxes?
DH said no because he thinks she just wants to claim her on taxes every year with using having her more as the justification.
^^^^^^^^^^^How is your H so sure this is the case?
There isn't a court order at
There isn't a court order at all. They were never married and theres no legal custody agreement so its just the default state laws. Which in BMs state is default 50/50 legal custody and technically the parent that makes more gets to claim the kid on taxes. Dh lets her every other year anyway, which i think is fair but she doesn't like that he is technically the one in control of that.
GBM left her kids when they were younger and used to cry to BM about how it ruined her life having to pay child support and not getting to claim the kids (who she ditched) on taxes. So BM is afraid of the same happening to her. It's the main reason that she wanted 50/50 at all - originally she was going to move 4 hours away and didn't want to take skid with until she found out that DH planned to file for custody as soon as she moved and of course that was likely to include child support. So his assumption isn't really out there.
Idk if he put a ton of thought into it honestly, it was just a quick reply while he was at work so I'm guessing he didnt think very deeply about it at all and that was just the first thing to come to mind since she has brought it up in the past.
I'm mostly just annoyed because it was nice having the extra day off, but every other week is their actual agreement so not much to say about it.