Items To Think About When Filing Your Taxes after Divorce

Many couples divorce using mediation or collaborative divorce and are able to dissolve the marriage in a cooperative and respectful way that takes every member of the family into consideration.

But there is another player: What you have to remember is that there is no touchy-feeliness about divorce in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service. Filing your tax return after your divorce the first year could be tricky and more complicated than you think.

In this excellent blog posting Bob Bordett writes about items to think about.

• Who claims the children?
• What’s your filing status?
• Alimony and Child Support
• Division of Assets