<prompt> Human: I was going to get a 1000 return and now Im getting nothing. Do I have any recourse?  <response>: File by mail and claim your own personal exemption. IRS will send letters to both of you, and your mother would have to prove you did not provide more than half the costs of your support to claim you as a dependent qualifying child or prove that she provided more than half the costs of your support to claim you as a dependent qualifying relative. Shed end up having to make some amount of payment to correct for the tax benefits she wrongly got. 