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Full-Text Articles in Law
A Game Theory View Of Family Law: Planning For A 500% Family Tax, Steven J. Willis
A Game Theory View Of Family Law: Planning For A 500% Family Tax, Steven J. Willis
FIU Law Review
Divorces involve money, which can prompt fierce legal battles. These include family obligations for child support, alimony, and property division. Small income changes can have huge consequences. For example, a $1,000 income increase can result in $5,000 of increased family obligations. A $10,000 increase can produce $50,000 of obligations. Or a $10,000 decrease can result in $50,000 of reduced obligations.
The Impact Of Social Security Of Dependents And Financing Of Post-Secondary Education Of Dependents On Support Obligations In Particularly California Divorces After The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Of 2017, John R. Dorocak
Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made alimony in divorce decrees and separation agreements entered into after December 31, 2018, neither deductible by the payor nor income to the payee for federal income tax purposes. Likely, that change in the tax law will result in less income to payees in a divorce and higher taxes for payors. In California, support in divorces is basically calculated by the software program Dissomaster. With payors facing higher taxes, such payors may look for possible sources of additional income for paying support. Payors may receive a credit in California against the support obligation …
Back To The Future: Marriage And Divorce Under The 2017 Tax Act, Mark W. Cochran
Back To The Future: Marriage And Divorce Under The 2017 Tax Act, Mark W. Cochran
Faculty Articles
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the 2017 Tax Act) significantly altered the federal tax consequences of marriage and divorce by mostly eliminating the so-called "marriage penalty" from the individual income tax rates and abolishing the deduction for alimony payments. These changes represent the latest congressional tinkering with issues that have persisted since the earliest days of the modem income tax, turning back the clock with regard to taxation for both married and divorced couples. For the first time, since the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, the rate brackets for married taxpayers filing joint returns …
Should Divorce Be More Taxing?: Structuring Tax Reduction To Reduce Inequality, Stephanie H. Mcmahon
Should Divorce Be More Taxing?: Structuring Tax Reduction To Reduce Inequality, Stephanie H. Mcmahon
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
Current law makes divorce a time for minimizing some couples’ taxes. The group who benefit from the reduction are unlikely to be those in greatest financial need following divorce. Existing divorce-related taxation focuses on shifting the tax burden between spouses, the implicit and explicit elections that enable this shifting, and the classification of who should be entitled to this tax reduction. This article argues that Congress should focus tax reduction on those with minimal resources following divorce to ensure an equitable distribution of the nation’s tax burden. This article proposes an alternative tax regime more consistent with mitigating inequality. Instead …
Possible Bias In Asset Valuations: An Application Of The Fraud Risk Triangle To Divorce Cases, Jennifer Tomasetti
Possible Bias In Asset Valuations: An Application Of The Fraud Risk Triangle To Divorce Cases, Jennifer Tomasetti
Honors Projects in Accounting
No abstract provided.
Should Divorce Be More Taxing?: Structuring Tax Reduction To Reduce Inequality, Stephanie Mcmahon
Should Divorce Be More Taxing?: Structuring Tax Reduction To Reduce Inequality, Stephanie Mcmahon
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Scholars debate whether Congress should address nonrevenue objectives through the tax code. This Article furthers this research agenda by examining a case in which interested groups misinterpret Congress's limited objectives for targeted tax reduction. In this case of limited congressional objectives (tax reduction) but broader societal objectives (helping divorcing spouses and children of divorce), this Article questions whether these other nonrevenue objectives are furthered by the targeted tax reduction.
This examination of divorce-related taxation emphasizes the importance of narrowly tailoring tax policies to broader, nonrevenue goals as opposed to viewing tax reduction as an end in itself. If we want …
Tax Consequences Of Distributing Equity Compensation Rights In Divorce, Gregg Polsky, Jeffrey D. Fisher, Zachry R. Potter
Tax Consequences Of Distributing Equity Compensation Rights In Divorce, Gregg Polsky, Jeffrey D. Fisher, Zachry R. Potter
Scholarly Works
This article discusses the federal tax issues arising from the equitable distribution of compensatory stock options and restricted stock in divorce. While the tax consequences of distributing vested options and shares are clear, the treatment of unvested rights is muddled. This article explains the state of the law and provides practical advice to divorce lawyers who confront these issues.
Decoupling Taxes And Marriage: Beyond Innocence And Income Splitting, Michelle L. Drumbl
Decoupling Taxes And Marriage: Beyond Innocence And Income Splitting, Michelle L. Drumbl
Michelle L. Drumbl
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Decoupling Taxes And Marriage: Beyond Innocence And Income Splitting, Michelle Lyon Drumbl
Decoupling Taxes And Marriage: Beyond Innocence And Income Splitting, Michelle Lyon Drumbl
Scholarly Articles
Fourteen years ago, members of Congress sympathetically listened as divorcees testified to their struggles to raise children while being pursued by the Internal Revenue Service for tax debts, often unknown to them, that were attributable to their ex-husbands' income. Rather than adopting one of many proposals to end joint and several liability, Congress instead elected to expand the grounds on which these individuals could seek relief from such liability. Since that time, taxpayers have seen a steady expansion of the grounds for so-called “innocent spouse relief” that has evolved through a combination of legislative, administrative, and judicial action. Yet the …
Simplifying And Rationalizing The Federal Income Tax Law Applicable To Transfers In Divorce, Deborah A. Geier
Simplifying And Rationalizing The Federal Income Tax Law Applicable To Transfers In Divorce, Deborah A. Geier
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This 2002 article explores the tax consequences of transfers in divorce and suggests how the tax consequences can be both simplified and rationalized. This article was written as an "Academic Adviser" to the Joint Committee on Taxation in connection with a study mandated by Congress on the overall state of the Federal tax system (June 2000 through April 2001) and was first published at JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION, STUDY OF THE OVERALL STATE OF THE FEDERAL TAX SYSTEM AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SIMPLIFICATION JCS-3-01, VOLUME III (ACADEMIC PAPERS), April, 2001, at 19.
Tax Issues In Divorce, Marjorie A. O'Connell
Tax Issues In Divorce, Marjorie A. O'Connell
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Joint Tax Return Liability And Bankruptcy, Ann F. Thomas
Joint Tax Return Liability And Bankruptcy, Ann F. Thomas
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, Craig Westbrook
Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, Craig Westbrook
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Modification Of Divorce Decrees By Virtue Of The 1984 Tax Amendments Relating To Dependency Exemptions, Roger M. Baron
Modification Of Divorce Decrees By Virtue Of The 1984 Tax Amendments Relating To Dependency Exemptions, Roger M. Baron
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Federal Tax Lien—Forced Sale Of The Homestead Interest Of A Non-Delinquent Spouse, Allen C. Dobson
Federal Tax Lien—Forced Sale Of The Homestead Interest Of A Non-Delinquent Spouse, Allen C. Dobson
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reforming The Tax Treatment Of Divorce: Splitting The Benefits Of A Split, C. Garrison Lepow
Reforming The Tax Treatment Of Divorce: Splitting The Benefits Of A Split, C. Garrison Lepow
Seattle University Law Review
The purpose of this Article is to consider the tax consequences of divorce, particularly those problems relating to property settlements. The tax consequences of alimony and child support are also considered. These problems have a long history that must be reviewed in order to understand both the present law and the current proposals which were considered by the House Ways and Means Committee during the last session of Congress. Unfortunately, the narrowness of the legislative proposals permits many of the problems to continue; the proposals change only the timing of the problem.
Divorce, An Overlooked Tax Planning Tool (Or Gimmick), Theodore W. Hirsh
Divorce, An Overlooked Tax Planning Tool (Or Gimmick), Theodore W. Hirsh
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Marital Property Distribution: Legal And Emotional Considerations, Norman Perlberger
Marital Property Distribution: Legal And Emotional Considerations, Norman Perlberger
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Haitian Vacation: The Applicability Of Sham Doctrine To Year-End Divorces, Michigan Law Review
The Haitian Vacation: The Applicability Of Sham Doctrine To Year-End Divorces, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note examines the propriety of applying the sham doctrine to tax-motivated divorces. Section I outlines the evolution of the sham doctrine from its exposition in Gregory v. Helvering through its expression in two different tests for commercial transactions. Section II then studies the relationship between state divorce law and the marital status provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to demonstrate the clear congressional preference for incorporating state law by reference rather than creating an independent federal law of marriage. It also examines the history of the 1969 Tax Reform Act in a vain effort to discern a congressional desire …
Divorce And Separation: Income Tax Consequences, Barbara B. Lewis
Divorce And Separation: Income Tax Consequences, Barbara B. Lewis
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Wright V. Commissioner, 62 T.C. 377 (1974), Aff'd, 543 F.2d 593 (7th Cir. 1976), Ruth L. Gokel
Wright V. Commissioner, 62 T.C. 377 (1974), Aff'd, 543 F.2d 593 (7th Cir. 1976), Ruth L. Gokel
Florida State University Law Review
Income Tax- PROPERTY SETTLEMENT IN DIVORCE- AN UNSETTLED AREA OF SETTLED LAW.
Federal Taxation In Separation And Divorce, Edward S. Graves
Federal Taxation In Separation And Divorce, Edward S. Graves
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Selected Tax Aspects Of Divorce And Property Settlements
Selected Tax Aspects Of Divorce And Property Settlements
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Income Tax Validity Of Invalid Migratory Divorces And The Rule Of Validation, Thomas J. Tumola
Income Tax Validity Of Invalid Migratory Divorces And The Rule Of Validation, Thomas J. Tumola
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Federal Taxation Of Alimony Arrangements, Henry D. Collins
Federal Taxation Of Alimony Arrangements, Henry D. Collins
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Payments Under Written Agreement Incident To Divorce, David W. Rowlinson S. Ed.
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Payments Under Written Agreement Incident To Divorce, David W. Rowlinson S. Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner and her husband separated in January 1919 after marital difficulties. The following sequence of events transpired in the next four months: the husband employed detectives to follow his wife and discover evidence on which a divorce action could be predicated; petitioner instituted proceedings for legal separation; a separation agreement was executed under which the husband was to give petitioner an initial payment of $200,000 and subsequent annual payments of $30,000 for her life; the husband began a suit for divorce to which petitioner counterclaimed for a divorce; a divorce was decreed in favor of petitioner. Petitioner did not ask …
Taxation--Estate Tax--Alimony Deduction, J. G. H.
Taxation--Estate Tax--Alimony Deduction, J. G. H.
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Abstracts, Katherine Kempfer
Abstracts, Katherine Kempfer
Michigan Law Review
The abstracts consist merely of summaries of the facts and holdings of recent cases and are distinguished from the notes by the absence of discussion.
Taxation - Income Tax - Taxability Of Income Of Alimony Trust To Husband-Settlor-Rule Of Douglas V. Willcuts, Benjamin W. Franklin
Taxation - Income Tax - Taxability Of Income Of Alimony Trust To Husband-Settlor-Rule Of Douglas V. Willcuts, Benjamin W. Franklin
Michigan Law Review
Three recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Helvering v. Fitch, Helvering v. Leonard, and Helvering v. Fuller, all involving an application of the rule of Douglas v. Willcuts, raise the question of what that rule means in its practical application. Stated briefly, that rule is that the income from a so-called alimony trust is taxable to the husband-settlor whenever it discharges a continuing obligation for him.
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.