"Permanent alimony" refers to a legal obligation in which a spouse is required to provide ongoing financial support to their ex-spouse for an indefinite period of time, often after a divorce.
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For reasons that are only marginally explicable, South Carolina attorneys and judges are reluctant to issue orders or enter agreements that combine rehabilitative alimony
with permanent alimony.
On February 8, 2013, a bill was introduced which would have amended the current laws in Florida and called for the elimination
of permanent alimony awards in the state.
Florida is one of seven states that continue to enforce
permanent alimony in divorce court, along with New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, Connecticut, North Carolina, and West Virginia.
But, believe it or not, Florida law has contemplated that there are times
when permanent alimony may no longer be appropriate (or when the amount of alimony may be reduced).
A judge in Arkansas may award temporary spousal support during divorce proceedings — sometimes referred to as alimony «pendente lite» — as well as either temporary or
permanent alimony after the divorce is final.
Permanent alimony provides a stable income to a dependent spouse who is unemployable due to advanced age, disability, or lack of education and work experience.
Although the courts will not consider fault when distributing marital property, the law permits judges to include it as a factor when making decisions
about permanent alimony or spousal maintenance after your divorce is final.
If your divorce is settled
with permanent alimony, the spouse with the higher income will have to pay alimony to the spouse with a lower income until the spouse receiving the payments dies or remarries.
If signed, the bill would have created a presumption in favor of 50/50 child custody,
eliminated permanent alimony, and permitted (in certain circumstances) those who had already been ordered to pay alimony to seek a modification based on the new law.
My biggest complaint about the current situation is that I have been paying $ 72,000 per year
of permanent alimony for over 10 years and I am getting near retirement time.
Most family law attorneys and divorcing parties seem to believe a short marriage suggests an award of rehabilitative rather than
permanent alimony.
Permanent alimony (spousal support or spousal maintenance) is generally not granted in divorce proceedings.
Permanent alimony was once common but is becoming increasingly rare.
A couple can also agree between themselves that one spouse will receive long - term or
permanent alimony.
Permanent alimony is generally reserved for spouses with very poor employment prospects due to ill health or advanced age.
Durational alimony provides a spouse with payments for a set duration, and
permanent alimony is awarded to provide for a spouse until she remarries or dies.
Permanent alimony is paid indefinitely, usually in long marriages where the receiving spouse did not develop work skills during the marriage.
Permanent alimony is a monthly amount the court orders be paid upon entry of the final divorce decree.
Under Nevada law,
permanent alimony ends if either spouse dies or the receiving spouse remarries, unless the court orders otherwise.
You have the option of requesting temporary alimony, paid while divorce is pending;
permanent alimony, paid after divorce is granted; or both.
PERMANENT ALIMONY - spousal support is based on the recipient's need for income to maintain a standard of living and the payor's ability to pay.
However,
permanent alimony and equitable distribution of martial property are not available in an annulment.
Permanent Alimony - spousal support ordered to be paid at a specified, periodic rate until modified by a court order, the death of either party, or the remarriage of the Obligee, whichever occurs first.