Lois R. v. Richard R.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Nanette Dembitz, J.

A major issue in this proceeding for support by a wife against her husband, is whether the report of his income on their joint tax return should be accepted as valid or whether petitioner wife can and has shown that the return understated his income.

The couple, married in 1950, separated in 1977. Their joint tax returns for 1975 and 1976 and the husband’s individual tax return for 1977 state his yearly income as $31,000 to $35,000. Petitioner, however, contends that the family’s expenditures in 1976, the last year that they lived together, show that he…