Thank you,
TurboTax was able to provide information that the mother indeed did file the return. The limited email and banking information given to me matched to what I had in my records for her.
As far as identity theft, I was told from TurboTax through a generic email that my "information was used on someone else's return". I don't know what parts of my information were used, however, we were divorced at the time of the filing and I so I did file a 14039 for my own protection.
I'm guessing that the first and best step to prevent this from happening again next year, as you mention, is to obtain a tax lawyer to see which avenues to go through with the courts and possible penalties?
Thank you
