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stepmama bear's picture

Submitted by stepmama bear on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 5:15am

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BM is not interested in playing nice. Lying in court. Blah blah blah 

We were ordered to foot the bill for her VERY expensive lawyers.  She told the court she was "not made of money", but her expensive/new cars and gated community say differently imho 

She is a business owner and I've been made aware that she takes a significant amount of her business payment under the table. (As well as selling $1500 puppies as soon as their family pet pops out another litter)

I plan on reporting her to IRS for tax evasion. In your educated opinion, how soon is TOO soon after temporary custody orders to start that?  While it's anonymous reporting, I do NOT want her to have ANY "proof" it was me. (And she probably will have an idea, however I need a timeline of deniability) 

Our end game for custody agreement would be 50/50. She wants full custody (of SD-12 and has been domicile for years) and has already proven to be willing to fight dirty. Thoughts?

Winterglow's picture

Submitted by Winterglow on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 6:08am

Personally, I would do it NOW. She can suspect you as much as she wants, there's no way she'll ever get proof.

Rumplestiltskin's picture

Submitted by Rumplestiltskin on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 6:39am

Worth a try. My SO reported his BM2 and nothing came of it. A lot of her rental properties are in her mother or uncle's name. It didn't make anything worse, though. Things were already bad with their court case. 

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Submitted by Harry on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 8:09am

Most likely will not do anything.  BM. income really is not your concern.  CS was figured out at the time of divorce.  It's will be hard to change it. DH shoulding be paying a % of is monthly income.  That money is for his kids.  If BM would win $ 5 million it should not effect CS.  

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Submitted by stepmama bear on Tue, 11/26/2024 - 6:41am

My husband is not currently working. However his "possibility of income" played a role in the decision for $1,000 /mo child support until we have final custody papers drawn up. I'm livid. As I will personally have to be footing some of the bill for him to not be in contempt of court...  Her lawyers did a TON of unnecessary work (because she's been ghosting us), leading to the $11,000 bill.