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because of this abusive behavior by the Intervenor, she
felt duress during the time period when the tax return
at issue was being prepared and signed. Petitioner
testified that she reluctantly acquiesced to many of
Intervenor’s demands to maintain marital and family
harmony.
With respect to the five incident reports on which peti-
tioner relies to support her claim of abuse by Mr. Krasner, those
reports related to complaints made by petitioner well after April
10, 1999, when she signed the 1998 joint return.29 Moreover,
those incident reports do not support petitioner’s position that
the abuse positive factor is present here. Except for the
January 16, 2000 incident report, which indicated that petitioner
alleged that Mr. Krasner shoved her, none of the other incident
reports reflected any claim made by petitioner to the Haverford
police department of unwanted physical contact, or any physical
or mental abuse, by Mr. Krasner. As for the January 16, 2000
incident report which indicated that petitioner claimed that Mr.
Krasner “shoved her during the argument”, that report stated:
“No signs of physical injury.”
With respect to petitioner’s testimony on which she relies
to support her claim of abuse by Mr. Krasner, we did not believe
such testimony. Petitioner did not claim abusive treatment by
Mr. Krasner in petitioner’s Form 8857 or in any other written
29Officers of the Haverford police department prepared the
five incident reports between Dec. 18, 1999, and Feb. 11, 2001.
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