Your payments
qualify as alimony if:
Not exact matches
Can
alimony qualify as earned income for the purposes of funding a Roth IRA?
Other types of income that do not
qualify as earned income for the credit include child support, retirement income, Social Security benefits, unemployment benefits and
alimony.
Even those who do not have an actual job can
qualify for the guaranteed personal loan because this loan is available to people who rely on benefits from Social Security Retirement, Social Security Disability, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), railroad retirement and other retirement plans,
as well
as those whose income is derived from child support,
alimony, or palimony.
So such income
as Social Security payments, disability payments, unemployment checks and
alimony payments all
qualify as income.
For purposes of making an IRA contribution, taxable
alimony income counts
as qualifying income.
Instead of dividing the military pension with an order complying with the
Qualified Domestic Relations Order provisions, the husband agreed in an atypical Property Settlement Agreement to pay to wife one - half of of his monthly military pension
as spousal support or
alimony, without a separate court order or any election of survivor benefits.
If the payments otherwise
qualify, you can deduct them
as alimony on your return.
If you are concerned with legal issues such
as alimony, child support and division of marital property, choose an attorney - mediator who is
qualified to offer both legal education and facilitate productive discussion.