Alimony is a legal obligation of one spouse to provide support to the other spouse after a divorce or legal separation. Most often, this support is in the form of monthly payments of a set amount.
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When Can Alimony Payments Stop?
After a few years of paying alimony, you might say to yourself “I’ve been paying all this money to my ex-spouse for a long time. The situation is a lot different than it was when we got divorced. Can I stop paying the alimony?”
How Alimony is Calculated in Tennessee
Among the various decisions and surprises that you may face as part of your divorce is establishing how much alimony will be paid by one spouse to the other. This can be a vexing problem because where child support is set using a cut-and-dry calculation, alimony is determined using a much more subjective procedure.
Dating while Separated
So what’s the problem? The divorce has been filed. The parties are separated. The kids are spending time with each parent. The divorce is so close you can taste it, why not go ahead get out there, have some fun, and re-enter the dating scene?
Alimony, Alimony, and more Alimony!
Divorce procedure in Tennessee is generally fairly straightforward, but certain issues are often sure to cause a fight. The most emotional and violent fights tend to be over the custody of the children, but often not far behind is the prospect of one party paying alimony to the other.
Tennessee law provides four different types of [...]
Property Division During Divorce
My clients are often very concerned about the property division in a divorce. Everybody has heard stories about someone getting “cleaned out” and being left with nothing while their spouse lives in the lap of luxury. Does this really happen? Is it fair? What can you do to stop it?