Sentences with phrase «see alimony awarded»

Today, we see alimony awarded less frequently — and when there is a payment, it tends to be in smaller amounts and for shorter periods of time.

Not exact matches

Such cases might be one of the rare situations which merit a judicial award of lump sum alimony (assuming there's enough marital assets to award such alimony) but so far I've never seen a wife argue for such an award.

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.

Yet, although the alimony statute is gender neutral, I rarely see the family courts awarding husbands alimony — even when -LSB-...]