As a fellow LBS of an 'it's all about me' academic, I've followed your threads for a long time but never posted, but want you to know how your strength and goodness have inspired me over the last months...
If this agreement is not 'legal', then PLEASE take A14's advice and filed an amended return...that's A LOT of money....thousands of dollars in reduced income, and $2k right off the top of your final bill...not to mention the $600 stimulus.
This strikes a real chord with me, because the whole financial implication of what's likely to be happening to me down the road is one of my remaining fears (I'm also in academics, but as a lowly paid administrator...). I am the financial person in our household, and the changes we will have to adapt to are not going to be pretty.
That said, absent a legal document to the contrary, you deserve that $$...sc$$w your self-centered,self-important, insecure H (oh wait, that's my H!!)
