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Negotiating Alimony With Your Spouse

You can avoid court if you negotiate alimony with your spouse. The court will approve your agreement if you make one. 

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Alimony: How Courts Set the Support Amount

Spousal support isn't like child support, with state guidelines for deciding the amount. Instead, judges consider a number of factors. 

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New Mexico Alimony FAQs

Does New Mexico allow alimony? Yes. Alimony, which is also called "spousal support" in New Mexico, may be awarded in a divorce case, but the bur...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Ohio

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Ohio.

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Alimony in Illinois: The Basics

When a married couple divorces in Illinois, either spouse may ask the court to order the other to pay some amount of alimony.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Pennsylvania

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Pennsylvania.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in West Virginia

What is Alimony? Alimony (referred to as spousal support in West Virginia) is a payment from one spouse to the other to help the recipient spouse...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Wisconsin

Alimony, (which is referred to as spousal maintenance in Wisconsin) is a payment from one spouse to the other to help lessen the financial hardship th...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Washington

Understanding and Calculating Spousal Maintenance in Washington Spousal maintenance (alimony) is a payment from one spouse to the other to help l...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Oregon

Alimony is a regular payment one spouse makes to the other spouse to provide financial support during and/or after a divorce.

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Understanding and Calculating Spousal Support (Alimony) in Virginia

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Virginia.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in South Carolina

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in South Carolina.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Rhode Island

Alimony is money one spouse pays to the other to provide support during or after a divorce. IN Rhode Island, as in other states, alimony is sometime...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Michigan

If you are going through a divorce in Michigan, you may ask the court to order your spouse to pay alimony (also called spousal support) if you have ...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Maryland

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Maryland.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Maine

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Maine.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Hawaii

In Hawaii, alimony is called spousal support or spousal maintenance. A judge may order temporary support during divorce proceedings—sometimes call...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Delaware

When a couple divorces, one spouse may be ordered to pay the other during the divorce process and/or for some period of time following a final divor...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Connecticut

Alimony is money one spouse pays to the other for support during divorce proceedings and/or for some time following a final divorce. The concept of ...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Colorado

In Colorado, alimony is called “spousal maintenance.” A Colorado judge may order one spouse to pay maintenance to the other during divorce proce...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Arkansas

Alimony is money one spouse pays to the other either during a divorce and/or for some period of time afterwards.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Alaska

In Alaska, alimony is called “spousal support.” The purpose of spousal support is to distribute the economic effects of divorce fairly between s...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in North Carolina

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in North Carolina.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in New York

All spouses have a duty to take care of each other, and that duty carries on even after divorce when one spouse needs financial assistance from th...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Tennessee

Alimony is a regular payment one spouse makes to the other spouse to provide support during or after a divorce. The spouses may agree to alimony, ...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in South Dakota

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in South Dakota.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Wyoming

In Wyoming, you can request alimony as soon as the divorce process begins; you can receive temporary alimony until you get your final order from the c...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Nevada

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Nevada.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Nebraska

Alimony is financial support that one spouse pays to the other after divorce, where one of the spouses is not completely self-supporting and must ...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Montana

When you get married, you and your spouse have a responsibility to provide each other with care and support. The responsibility to support each ot...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Missouri

In Missouri, when a couple files for divorce, one of the spouses may be entitled to receive financial support from the other. This support is know...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Mississippi

During a divorce, either spouse can ask the judge to award spousal support. In Mississippi, this type of financial support from one spouse to the ...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in D.C.

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Washington D.C.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Arizona

Alimony is money that one spouse pays to the other for support either during or after a divorce (or both).

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Alabama

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Alabama.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Louisiana

Louisiana family law courts may grant alimony when one spouse needs financial support during or after a divorce. Alimony is designed to help the r...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Kentucky

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Kentucky.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Kansas

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Kansas.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Iowa

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Iowa.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Florida

Alimony is money that one spouse pays to the other for support during the divorce process or for some period of time following a final divorce. Co...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Georgia

Alimony is money one spouse pays to the other for support, either during a divorce process or for some period of time after a divorce, or both. Th...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Vermont

Spousal maintenance (also known as alimony) is a payment from one spouse to the other to help the recipient spouse avoid financial hardship. It is...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Utah

Alimony is a payment from one spouse to the other to help the recipient spouse maintain a lifestyle as close as possible to the marital standard o...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Texas

Alimony is the most commonly used term for a regular payment one spouse makes to the other spouse to provide support during or after a divorce p...

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in New Mexico

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in New Mexico.

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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Minnesota

Find out how alimony (spousal support) is awarded and calculated in Minnesota.

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Changing the Amount of Spousal Support

When an alimony (spousal support) order is already in place, can it be changed? It depends.

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Types of Spousal Support

Spousal support falls into two broad categories: short-term support and long-term or permanent support. “Reimbursement” support is a kind of lon...

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Enforcing Alimony Orders

There are many reasons people fall behind on alimony payments. It’s possible the spouse that pays alimony (“paying spouse”) lost a job, or suf...

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Guidelines for Awarding Spousal Support in Michigan

In Michigan (and many other states), there are well-known child support guidelines that provide a uniform system of calculating, in precise dollar ter...

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Adultery and Alimony: Does Cheating Cost Extra in Florida?

As you will recall, the last time, the factors to be considered in awarding alimony were outlined and discussed. A question that is frequently ask...

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How to Reduce Alimony Payments

What a judge will look at in considering a request to reduce alimony payments.

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How the Court Determines Alimony in New Mexico

Courts look at the needs and financial responsibilities of both spouses to determine who gets spousal support payments, and how much they will be.

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Alimony Guidelines in New York

The rules governing alimony in New York - Who gets it and how much

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