Tax refund shorted

[Ref]

I just got my tax refund and it was shorted by about the same as the dependent amount.

Around April BM emailed DH reminding him that he gets to claim SD. Later she emailed him that she needed to talk to him about taxes. Then she emailed telling him to f off and that she didn't want to communicate with him anymore.  We just assumed that she filed with claiming SD.

We filed this year and attached the proper docs, but we extended and she didn't. We didn't file until October.

Long Long story short. What do we do if this is the reason that we were shorted? Do we deal with the IRS, small claims, family court?

I have a feeling that a few of you have had to deal with this very situation.

Thanks
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[ocean]

Deal with IRS....if you have court documents that say you get it then you will have to supply them with the docs...then BM will have to owe if she claimed too.....

[MixedBag]

I too would start with the IRS and make sure you know what the difference is really for.

Once I/we got back a different amount than expected and I thought I knew why.

But when I called the IRS, it was really X reason, and then Y also, and the difference happened to work out the same.  And I was wrong.

Start with the IRS.