can ex force me to give him my tax forms?

This is in Utah:

My ex-husband claims he has been cheated out of his tax benefits and wants us (my new husband and me) to submit to him all of our income tax materials for the last two years.

Do I/we have to comply with this request? Could the court force us to do that?

The divorce decree is extremely vague and only states that whoever will benefit most from claiming the children for the year should do so--and then reimburse the other ex-spouse half of that benefit.

To that end, we had our tax accountant figure out my taxes (my new husband and I filed separately last year) with and without claiming the children. Claiming one child. Claiming two children. And finally claiming all three children. We then took the biggest difference (between claiming all children and not claiming any children) and paid him half that amount.

We figured this would constitute half of the tax benefit of claiming the children.

At any rate, the ex-spouse is now claiming that we cheated him out of 'thousands of dollars' and wants us to give him all of our tax information or else, he said, he would have our information subpoenaed.

Can he do that?

What can we do? (We tried to look for information on the IRS web site, but it seems extremely confusing and at times even contradictory.)

Does anyone know of a good legal approach, something preventive, for us? (We live in Utah.)

Any suggestions or help woyld be greatly appreciated.

Slowly going insane,


Shalayla
shalayla@usa.com