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There's a lot to unpack here (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Malicious compliance story.

Friend of mine was paying child support for his kids, his ex wife was claiming no income as she had to look after the kids which he knew was bullshit and she was working in the new boyfriends restaraunt but claimed that she was just "helping out when she could. That stopped for a year when her and her new boyfriend wanted to buy a house, so he gave her a very nicely paid job working at his restaraunt as a "manager". They found and bought a house and immediately she was "fired" and went back to seeking child support.

So he sued to have the child support lowered as she can clearly work when it suits her goals and she fought it kicking and fucking screaming, tried taking away his access to the kids and generally making his life hell. So he went to the tax office with a hot tip "I'm willing to bet that between (insert dates here) this restaraunt somehow took in exactly (insert what ex-wife made + taxes) more than they normally do per year. Id be willing to bet it was their best year ever and I guarantee you will find some very cooked books"

Turns out its really easy to get custody when your ex-wife is being charged with fraud and tax evasion.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So he went to the tax office with a hot tip

You had me up until here. But the idea that a local tax office is going to follow a "hot tip" off of anyone, much less an ex-husband, is laughable. I've had to negotiate with the staff of my local tax office before and they don't move a muscle unless someone up the bureaucratic chain orders it. Maybe this guy was friends with the State AG somehow? Or some other senior bureaucrat? But past that, this sounds like total fiction.

[–] stratoscaster@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I thought that the IRS actually does have a anonymous tip line?

https://www.irs.gov/compliance/reporting-other-information-to-the-irs

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Ok. I dont care.

[–] Willie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No matter how you feel about it, he was a fool to make a public post about it.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Only if you assume he was telling the truth and not a tall story

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

“This profile is a safe space for billionaires…” gives it away.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m 99% sure that alimony doesn’t work like that in the US. Are there any countries where it does work that way?

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From my understanding, I believe it does, in that if your income decreased, your alimony can be reduced.

Of course, this is almost certainly a work of fiction.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but once your income goes back up so does the alimony, at least in the US

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a comedian/actor who was/is living in Canada to avoid maintenance payments he couldn't possibly make, as the calculation was done with he had just received about three years income in a single cheque, and he doesn't actually make 3 years income each month

I wouldn't be surprised, based on that, if what matters is income on the day of the court order

[–] washbasin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Dave Foley

Foley married Canadian writer Tabatha Southey on December 31, 1991.[14] They divorced in 1997.[14] The couple has two children.[14] In 2001, an interim child support agreement obligated Foley to pay Southey $10,700 a month, a figure based on his income when NewsRadio was in production. By 2011, Foley claimed that his earnings had declined to the point that the $10,700 sum constituted "literally 400 percent of [his] income" but he was unable to get the obligation reduced in court

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Foley