Tax Breaks For Child Supporters

Every year the United States Government authorizes tax breaks for useful, necessary, and helpful expenditures of individual tax payers. Every year divorced or separated parents pay child support that is not optionally and in fact very purposeful but cannot be deducted on income tax returns.

Since only one parent can claim each child, typically the non-custodial parent i.e. child support payee must pay taxes on income they will never see. On the flip-side the custodial parent, dependent-claimer, and support receiver gains tax-free support payments guaranteed by local courts.