Most Personal Legal Fees Are Not Deductible
If you incur any type of legal expense for a personal reason the TCJA of 2017 no longer allows you to deduct these fees.
Personal Legal Fees You Can Deduct
You can only deduct a handful of personal legal fees under current tax law. They include:
Legal fees in employment discrimination cases (where the you as the taxpayer are the plaintiff): The deduction is limited to the total amount of the your gross income.
Claims against the federal government for damage to property: If you are a deployed soldier and your home is damaged while you are gone, you can sue Uncle Sam for damages.
Whistleblower rewards: Say you report a person or business for tax fraud or evasion. If that person or business is caught, then you will be paid a percentage of the amount that was evaded. This deduction is limited to the amount that you are paid.
so your legal fees would not be deductible.
the interest on the judgment is taxable.
