I got served at work. My ex is claiming I hid 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 quietly changed the comparison period and removed the 2021 figure entirely. My attorney requested the original working papers from the accountant, including the figures she had initially used to calculate the alleged increase.
The working papers showed something even stranger. The accountant had compared my 2019 W-2 against my 2024 gross receipts without accounting for the eleven months I wasn’t working, then described the difference as “previously undisclosed earnings.” The tax transcripts attached to the report directly contradicted that conclusion. Every amount they claimed was hidden had already been reported.
At the hearing, the judge asked why the original report used figures that were contradicted by the exhibits attached to the same filing. The accountant said she had relied on information provided by my ex’s attorney. The judge looked at my ex and asked why he was seeking six years of recalculated support based on numbers his own exhibits disproved. He had no answer. The court rejected the calculation and ordered the support review to be based on the actual tax records—not the comparison that started the entire case.
