I got served at work. My ex is claiming I had income for six years. He wants support recalculated back to 2019 and he’s asking for fees. His forensic accountant’s report says my earnings “increased substantially and were not disclosed.” The report is built off my 2019 W-2 compared to my 2024 gross. It doesn’t account for the fact that I was on unpaid leave for eleven months in 2021—which is documented in the very tax transcripts his own accountant attached as Appendix B.
Line 1 of the 2021 transcript shows nine thousand dollars. He filed it himself. My attorney sent one letter pointing at Appendix B. Their response came back in nine days, and it wasn’t a withdrawal—it was an amended report. They removed the 2021 comparison entirely and replaced it with a claim that my “overall earning trajectory” still justified recalculation. My attorney asked them to show the missing income. They couldn’t.
Then we went through the remaining years line by line. The numbers in their report weren’t my taxable income—they had compared my 2019 W-2 to my later gross receipts without accounting for taxes, business expenses, or the period when I wasn’t working. They had made my lowest-income year look like my starting salary and my gross revenue look like take-home income. Worse, every tax transcript they relied on was attached to their own filing, so the court already had the actual numbers.
At the hearing, the judge asked the forensic accountant why she had described the income as “undisclosed” when the tax records attached to her report showed it had been reported. She said she had used the figures provided to her. The judge asked who provided them. She looked at my ex’s attorney. Then the judge turned to my ex and asked why he was requesting six years of recalculated support using a report that contradicted its own exhibits. He couldn’t answer. The recalculation request was denied, and the judge ordered the parties to use the actual tax transcripts—not the comparison his accountant had constructed.
