Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Virginia
Can the IRS take my tax check if my ex wife owes money for welfare fraud? She was charged in 2010 with this not me. They didn't take my check while we were married how can they take it now that we're divorced?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Take it for what debt that you supposedly owe? And, no, it can't be for your wife's alleged
welfare fraud; must be something else which only you are responsible for (my opinion).
(As an example, if welfare was paid out to your dependent child(ren) some years back, it's possible that
Virginia's Department of Child Support Enforcement served you with an administrative notice
establishing a debt owed by you for these funds that were paid out to support your family and
then reported this matter to the IRS which is now seizing your tax refund to reimburse the Commonwealth.)