Answer
- If you are a salaried employee or self-employed, you may claim the family allowance.
- If you are neither a salaried employee nor self-employed, the other parent may claim. However, the latter must hand over the allowances they receive to you. If they fail to do so, you can ask the family allowances compensation fund of the other parent to pay out the benefits directly to you (payment to a third party).
- A step-father may claim family allowances if the mother is not gainfully employed. If both the father of the child and the mother’s new partner are either employed or self-employed, paternal entitlement takes precedence insofar as the father and the mother share custody of the child. If the mother has sole custody, it is the step-father, not the father, who may claim the family allowance.
- bezieht der Stiefvater und nicht der Vater die Familienzulagen.