Legal Opinion

Siegert v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided January 15, 1969No. Docket No. 2390-66Published

Held, payments made by petitioner's former husband to her pursuant to order of a responding State court under provisions of the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act upon her petition for support of a minor child are not alimony, includable in petitioner's income under sec. 71 of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code.

1Opinion of the Court

Ines Siegert, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

Siegert v. Commissioner

Docket No. 2390-66

United States Tax Court

51 T.C. 611; 1969 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 209;

January 15, 1969, Filed

Decision will be entered for the petitioner.

Held, payments made by petitioner's former husband to her pursuant to order of a responding State court under provisions of the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act upon her petition for support of a minor child are not alimony, includable in petitioner's income under sec. 71 of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code.

Arthur J. England, Jr., for the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Commissioner v. LesterSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  2. Arthur G. B. Metcalf v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1965
  3. Thomson v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1964
  4. Tinsman v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1967
  5. Clark v. ClarkDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1962

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