REIGHLEY v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 22101.

17 T.C. 344 (1951)

LILY R. REIGHLEY, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated September 20, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James I. Johnson, Esq., for the petitioner.

Leonard A. Marcussen, Esq., for the respondent.

William E. Evenson, Esq., Harry Henke, Esq., and E. L. Skeel, Esq., amici curiae.


The Commissioner has determined a deficiency in income tax for the year 1945 in the amount of $20,778.33. He now agrees that petitioner is entitled to deduct $22,276 for attorneys' fees and expenses incurred in litigation to recover support payments from petitioner's former husband, which were paid in 1945. There are two issues to be decided: Whether periodic support payments are taxable to petitioner under section 22 (k). If the first issue is decided against the petitioner...

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