Sentences with phrase «award alimony unless»

The court will not award alimony unless, after considering these factors, it determines alimony is appropriate.

Some states do not award alimony unless there is some form of wrongful conduct and those are often times only seen in fault divorces, where one spouse can prove something like abandonment, financial abuse, addiction, physical abuse, adultery, child abuse, etc. most states, now, are no fault, and if alimony is available it's often only rehabilitative.

Not exact matches

Unless the couple agrees not to seek any changes to the original spousal support award in court, either spouse can ask the court to modify alimony payments due to a material change in circumstances.

Most alimony awards in Ohio are non-modifiable unless they contain language that reserves the court's jurisdiction to do so.

This section is captioned «Retention of jurisdiction as to alimony and custody of children,» and begins with the phrase «After the issuance of a decree of divorce...» This language seems to create a gap between this section and the pendente lite custody available under section 16 - 911, unless the custody decree was originally conceived by the D.C. Council to be a separate order that would follow the divorce award, thus making section 16 - 914 the permanent custody provision.