u/cherubcherrylips

For context, I am 25 years old and I am finally breaking free from the chokehold my family has put me in. I grew up in nyc with an undocumented mother all my life, she never filed for taxes and my father lived in Florida my entire life, he's a citizen and it’s claimed that he filed me as a dependent. my issue is, I do not know for certain. my mother is very ignorant and my father was sneaky. he did not send money, he never raised me and I seen him about 4 times in person my entire life. he left when I was about a couple months old. I gave my half sister my social security to look up information in the IRS site and I was basically ignoring it and going off by what she was telling me. I come to find out, IRS doesn’t explicitly say who claimed me because it’s protected information. My mom says she doesn’t know if my father claimed me but it’s possible and she signed a paper for him to be able to do so…… but it turns out him and his wife claimed me, they never gave us money….I don’t know what, how, where, when…. she’s an immigrant, what could you sign… basically I am wondering if my father did was illegal and if there’s anything I could do at 25 to open a lawsuit or complain about it. I have been working since 19 years old and I have filed my own taxes, no dependents, to this day. thank you, any help is appreciated.