If one of your clients expects to receive spousal maintenance or
alimony as part of a divorce settlement or court order, you may want to delay finalizing that client's divorce until the beginning of 2019 so he or she won't have to pay tax on the alimony or spousal maintenance payments.
The word «post-separation year» means that
alimony recapture applies only to
alimony that is ordered
as part of a
divorce instrument (meaning, a decree
of divorce or legal separation, or marital
settlement agreement).