Julie Fowler

Nominated one of "10 Best" Attorneys for Nebraska by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys in 2015. Winner of Michael W. Amdor Memorial Excellence in Legal Research Award.

Nebraska

Since 2007

Attorney

Law Office of Julie Fowler, PC, LLO

Current

Creighton University School of Law

J.D.

Michael W. Amdor Memorial Excellence in Legal Research Award

Fourth Judicial District, Douglas County, Nebraska

2009

Nebraska Bar Association  # 23649

Attorney

2007 - Current

Q. How to appeal a denied tax refund claim due to mailing date discrepancy?

June 3, 2025

A: You aren't denied a tax refund just for filing a couple of days late. The exception to this is if you are past the generally 3 year statute of limitations. However if you are 3 years and even a day late, then an allegation of filing even one day late can prevent you from being due a tax refund.

Have you tried contacting the Taxpayer Advocate Service, which is part of the government designed to help resolve IRS claims?

https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/

For general information about how to file an appeal, see the IRS memo on Requesting an Appeal. You will generally want to retain a CPA or attorney to assist you, but you are not required to do so.

https://www.irs.gov/ap peals/preparing-a-request-for-appeals ... Read More

Q. How can I access my parents' recent divorce documents online in Nebraska?

June 3, 2025

A: Assuming you are an adult, then you can go to the Nebraska Judicial Branch's website under Case Information and look up publicly available court documents by party name for a small fee:

https://supremecourt.nebraska.gov/e-services/case-information-eservices

This will show you the documents filed in the divorce case that have been not been sealed as confidential documents. Thus, you can see the initial court pleadings, motions filed, and court orders in the case. You won't be able to see things like exhibits submitted at hearings or their discovery documents.

Keep in mind that some of the wording may have a different meaning legally than what you might believe it to mean on a casual reading. Also, sometimes people confuse something that is a request for relief filed by one party as a court order. If you have questions as to what something means in a court file, get in contact with an attorney.

This is assuming that you are an adult. If you are a child, you shouldn't be looking at the divorce documents on your parent's case, even if a custody dispute about you is part of the case. Generally both parents are prohibited from discussing the case with you. A parent should not be sharing court information with you or allowing you to access the court file or court documents. This leads to too many misunderstandings and problems. ... Read More

Q. How can I address my ex-wife's harassment despite a parenting plan in Nebraska?

May 20, 2025

A: If your court order includes a parenting plan that includes non-harassment language and/or a communication protocol that is being violated, you can potentially file a show cause/contempt action or other enforcement action with the Court to ask the Court to sanction the other party for violating the order. Especially if the language is repeated curse words, etc. the Court may be willing to issue a sanction for this violation of the communication protocol in the order.

If it rises to the level of legal harassment, you can also consider a harassment protection order.

You may also want to think about modifying your parenting plan if you think more clear terms would be helpful. For example, saying that a parent must respond to a parenting question within 24 hours but also the parent has the 24 hours to respond with repeated follow-up. You could also choose a different time period (48 hours? 3 days?) if it makes more sense for your case. This way you are at least only dealing with the other parent on a daily or every few day basis.

Some of your options here depend on what custody/parenting time schedule that you have. If you have joint 50/50 custody, such as a 2/2/3 schedule, then you may need to have communication with the other parent multiple times per week. Sometimes switching your parenting schedule to a week on/week off parenting time schedule can help minimize the frequency needed for communications.

We can do legal things to try make the communication better, such as parenting apps, parenting communication protocols, etc. However, sometimes the best course of action is just to ignore the communication that is otherwise offensive and annoying and respond in a business-manner to those questions that are truly parenting time questions. Sometimes just ignoring the rude, annoying, etc. behavior causes the parent to not put so much effort in sending it if it doesn't get the reaction that they intended. We can't control the actions of others, but we can control our own. You can spend a lot of time and money trying to get the other parent to communicate better. Sometimes it makes sense to do so and bring further legal action. However, sometimes the most effective method is just to react to them as you would an annoying customer and only address the matters that need to be handled and ignore the rest. ... Read More