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High-conflict Ex Wrongfully Filed Tax Return Claiming Child

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Location: Haddonfield, NJ

I am currently having issues with a high-conflict ex. We are divorced and have 70-30 custody. He's supposed to be able to claim my son every odd year, but only if he is up to date on child support payments which he is not. This is specifically outlined in our child support order, he has accumulated significant arrears. He filed his tax return and claimed my son anyway and mine got rejected. I have spoken with my lawyer on the next legal steps which would essentially be for him to either pay me the amount I should have gotten, file an amended order, or he would be taken to court and the amount (also significant) would be added to his child support arrears.

My question is, do you think that he will be ordered to pay for my legal fees? Since it is clearly stated in the order that he may not claim unless he's completely paid, if he refused after that forcing us to take him I'm assuming they would have him pay for them but I'm unsure. Please help, thank you in advance to anyone who has a probable answer.

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