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Well, the law does require anybody earning above a certain level of money to file a tax return. It is not improper for a court to demand a person comply with the law.

Whether the judge will order such an action and what they may do if the party fails to comply is up to the judge.

I don’t see a judge ordering either party to spend money to file their taxes if they are not obligated to file their tax returns. The problem you have that i see is you don’t seem to know if they are required to file a return by law.

Anyway, I can’t see it being a problem to ask the question.
Judges do order people to file their tax returns in order to capture refunds for child support purposes, all of the time. I probably average at least a couple of dozen clients doing returns for multiple years every off season for just that reason...whether they are required by law to do so or not. At least once a year I have someone who is ordered to file 10 years worth of tax returns. Most of those people should file even if they are not required to do so, because they would get any withholding back as a refund...and many of them would be due a little bit of EIC even without having children to claim.

Unfortunately they can only get refunds for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 now (and 2014 will expire in April) but you wouldn't believe the number of people who leave tax refunds on the table rather than letting their refund get seized and given to the person they are supposed to be paying child support to.