With your divorce agreement, you must pay spousal maintenance. It is not the amount of the payments you focus on; it is how the court calculates payments. Forbes provides several factors that determine maintenance payments. Know which parts of your income courts...
Spousal Maintenance
When can you request spousal support modification?
After your divorce, you and your former spouse rebuilt your lives based on your new financial circumstances, including the spousal support that the divorce decree ordered. Spousal support may become an issue long after you and your former spouse sign the divorce...
How does spousal support work under the new tax system?
When the media first reported changes to the spousal support system, people panicked. Divorcees who were already receiving alimony worried that the new system would create problems for their existing spousal support order. No longer claiming the money as taxable...
The role of spousal support once someone files for divorce
The word alimony often calls to mind ongoing payments made from one spouse to the other after a divorce. While people often assume that a husband will pay a wife alimony or spousal support, the laws on the topic are actually gender-neutral, which means either spouse...
5 factors that could increase likelihood of spousal maintenance
If you are financially dependent on your spouse, you can be understandably worried about supporting yourself after divorce. If this sounds like your situation, try to stay calm and consider your options. One option that may be available is requesting spousal...
Which type of spousal maintenance is appropriate for you?
Just as every marriage is unique, every divorce comes with its own specific circumstances. These circumstances affect divorce mediation, determining arrangements for parenting plans, child support, division of marital property and spousal maintenance. Spousal...
