What do I do if my husband's ex-wife gave him a fake tax ID number for her child care provider? 16 Answers as of December 12, 2011

Most FOC's require tax returns and other documentation (check stubs) of actual child care payments.

If you know for certain the ID number is fake, you should be justified in believing that the day care is not being paid, even if you are provided questionable receipts from members of her family. You have two choices: (a) refuse to pay her anything for the claimed day care expense until you are satisfied that there are "real" day care expenses being paid or until she takes some action in court (at which time you can defend yourself and force her to prove that she has actually paid day care expenses) or (b) file a motion with the court to force her to provide adequate proof that she is paying the expense. The problem with paying family members day care expense is that you have no way to prove that the family member isn't just giving the money back to the mother or that they aren't even providing the care.

You can challenge the validity of the receipt and the ein by looking up who the ein is assigned to and confirming whether it matches the company she's claiming is doing the childcare.

You will want to fight this, and your husband should probably take her back to court.

You can always stop paying until she verifies the legitimacy of the tax ID number. Worst case scenario, she takes him to court to enforce the issue. If the tax ID number is legitimate, he could have a problem. If the number is not, I doubt she'll try and take him to court. The only way the divorce decree can be enforced is for one of the parties to file something in court. This is a civil matter, not a criminal one. No one outside of the parties is going to do anything about failure to comply. If she cannot verify the legitimacy of the tax number, stop paying until she does.

You will need to hire a lawyer to file motions to pay the money into the court. Your husband needs to pay the money into the court system until she can provide proof that the expenses is legitimate. If your husband just does not pay the money then he could be in contempt of a court order and suffer consequences from that event. If she cannot successfully prove the expense, then his money will be refunded to him upon a judge's order.