Tax Court Not Quick To Find Abuse In Innocent Spouse Case
This decision ignores the dynamics of an abusive relationship. In such a relationship, the abuser dominates all aspects of his partner’s life and uses all tactics available to him to control her. A woman in an abusive relationship seeks court redress not as a first resort, but as a last. That this decision fails to look deeper fails women struggling to escape abusive relationships.
Naming Spousal IRAs After Senator Hutchison – Is That A Priority ?
I don’t know. Maybe it is not such a bad thing to do in the middle of a fiscal crisis. Senator Mikulski is a Democratic and Senator Hutchison is a Republican. Maybe the “idiots in Congress”, as my blogging buddy Robert Flach refers to them, will think about Senator Mikulski’s speech and be inspired to reach across the aisle and find some common ground. Who knows ? Maybe if half of them were women, it would happen.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.