Spousal Support
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Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Ohio
Alimony (also called "spousal support" in Ohio) is a regular payment one spouse makes to the other spouse to provide financial support during and/...
How is Spousal Support Calculated in Illinois?
The Goal of Alimony Courts may order one spouse to pay alimony (also referred to as "spousal support" or “maintenance” in Illinois) when, simply...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Pennsylvania
Alimony, also called spousal support, is a regular payment one spouse makes to the other spouse to provide financial support during and/or after a...
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...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Wisconsin
Alimony by Agreement or Court Involvement Alimony, (which is referred to as spousal maintenance in Wisconsin) is a payment from one spouse to the...
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...
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.
Understanding and Calculating Spousal Support in Virginia
Spousal support is a payment one spouse pays to help the other avoid financial hardship. Eligibility for spousal support does not depend on gender; ...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in South Carolina
Alimony is a regular payment one spouse makes to the other for support during and/or after a divorce. The spouses may agree to alimony, or the court...
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...
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 ...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Maryland
Alimony is a monetary award payable by one spouse to the other during or after a divorce. In Maryland, the court may award alimony to a spouse who sh...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Maine
During or after a divorce, Maine courts may order one spouse to pay alimony to the other. In Maine, alimony is called “spousal support,” and it c...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in North Carolina
It’s not unusual, when a couple gets divorced, for one spouse to need some assistance while trying to become self-supporting. If the spouse who ...
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...
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, ...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in South Dakota
Alimony, also known as spousal support, is a regular payment one spouse makes to the other spouse to provide support during or after a separation ...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Wyoming
Alimony (also called spousal support or maintenance) is a payment from one spouse to the other during or after divorce. It acts like a substitute ...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in New Hampshire
Alimony is financial support paid by one spouse to the other for living expenses and reasonable necessities after a divorce. In New Hampshire, the...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Nevada
Alimony is financial support that one spouse pays to the other during or after divorce, or both, so that the supported spouse can maintain a reaso...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in D.C.
Alimony is money that one spouse pays to the other for support either during the divorce process or for some period of time after divorce, or both...
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).
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Alabama
Alimony is money one spouse pays to the other for support either during or after a divorce.
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...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Kentucky
In a divorce or legal separation proceeding in Kentucky, either spouse may ask the court to make a maintenance (alimony) order, either during the ...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Kansas
Kansas courts may award alimony, also called maintenance, to either spouse while a divorce is pending or when the divorce is over. Maintenance awa...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Iowa
In a divorce or legal separation proceeding in Iowa, either spouse may ask the court to make a spousal support order based on financial need (spou...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in New Mexico
In New Mexico, spousal support is the term used for financial support that one spouse gets from the other after separation or divorce (sometimes a...
Understanding and Calculating Alimony in Minnesota
During divorce proceedings and once a divorce is final, Minnesota courts may order one spouse to pay alimony, also called spousal maintenance, to ...
Changing the Amount of Spousal Support
When an alimony (spousal support) order is already in place, can it be changed? It depends.
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...
Enforcing Alimony Orders in New Jersey
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...
Spousal Support in Michigan: What are the “Guidelines?”
Under Michigan law, there are well-known child support guidelines which provide a uniform system of calculating, in precise dollar terms, the amou...
Does Cheating Cost Extra Under Florida’s Alimony Statute? Types of Alimony
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...
How to Reduce Alimony Payments
To get alimony payments reduced, you have to show that something's changed.
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