Sentences with phrase «alimony awards based»

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The modification of spousal maintenance, however, may depend upon whether alimony was awarded by a judge after a trial or was based upon an agreement of the parties.

Alimony awards may be based upon one of the spouse's child rearing or homemaking responsibilities and efforts.

The sole basis for that court's determination of fault was that, under Florida law, a wife found guilty of adultery can not be, as Mrs. Firestone was, awarded alimony.

Time, the court reasoned, should have realized that a divorce decree containing an award of alimony could not, consistent with Florida law, have been based on adultery.

Tennessee courts award alimony based on one spouse's need and the other spouse's ability to pay.

Spousal maintenance: Also called alimony, spousal maintenance can be awarded on a temporary or permanent basis.

Indiana spousal support laws permits a judge to award alimony temporarily or on a short - term or long - term basis.

For that reason, a judge will consider whether alimony should be awarded based on some or all of the following factors:

In fact, the American Law Institute's Principles of Family Dissolution recommend that Courts use a years - of - marriage - based schedule in determining an alimony award.

While these items come up in every divorce case, it is possible to determine the likelihood of being awarded child support or alimony based on the basics that family judges use to make these awards.

The law in Massachusetts permits several forms of alimony, and awards are made based upon a number of factors, such as the length of the marriage, the needs of the recipient and the payer's financial status.

Alimony is discretionary in Mississippi, and according to the Mississippi Code - Section 93 - Chapters: 5 - 23, the court makes a support award based on what it believes is fair to both spouses.

The courts refer to alimony as spousal maintenance and may award it on a temporary or permanent basis.

Alimony or maintenance may be awarded on a temporary or permanent basis on consideration of the following factors:

In a proceeding for support unconnected with divorce, a Florida family court judge will award child support based on Florida's child support guidelines and will award alimony based on one party's need for financial support and the other party's ability to pay.

The courts have discretion to grant alimony to either spouse, and consider all information presented during the dissolution proceedings, awarding support on a case - by - case basis.

Tennessee courts can award one of several types of alimony available, based on a number of factors that generally include duration of marriage, age and mental health of the receiving spouse, and education and potential need for training for the receiving spouse.

By way of example, if a spouse gambles away savings and retirement funds (or has used income to maintain a drug or other addiction which took money away from the family unit), and the remaining assets are inadequate to allow the other spouse to recoup her share of what was squandered (in addition to what he or she otherwise would receive), an appropriate savings and retirement component can be included in (added to) the base alimony award.

The court awards alimony on a temporary or permanent basis based on the owing spouse's ability to pay, the spouses» ages, the duration of the marriage, and the requesting spouse's ability to work.

The court determines whether to award alimony, the amount, and duration based on the interests of justice and the situation of the parties.

Alimony, or spousal support, may be awarded to either spouse on a temporary or permanent basis, and may be awarded in a lump sum or by scheduled payments.

Rather, whether or not to award post-divorce alimony lies within the exclusive discretion of the court and based on 17 different factors that it can consider in the Pennsylvania alimony statute (23Pa.