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  2. Alimony - Wikipedia

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    Alimony, also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spouse maintenance (Australia), [1] is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.

  3. Alimony Tax Rules: What Divorcing Couples Need to Know - AOL

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    Under the old, pre-2019 alimony tax rule, filers could deduct alimony payments on their Form 1040, and recipients had to include alimony as income, provided that the payments were made in cash ...

  4. Child support - Wikipedia

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    After the responsibility for child support is established and questions of paternity have been answered to the court's satisfaction, the court will notify the obligor and order that parent to make timely child support payments, fees (which may be 0, $60, [46] or more) and establish any other provisions, such as medical orders.

  5. Child support in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For example, a man and a woman marry in West Virginia. During the marriage, the husband and the wife have children. In West Virginia, the husband and the wife divorce. West Virginia issues a divorce decree that gives the wife custody of the children and orders the husband to pay child support.

  6. Do I Need to Pay Taxes on Alimony? - AOL

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  7. Divorce in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lenore Weitzman's 1985 book The Divorce Revolution, using data from California in 1977-78, reported that one year after divorce, the standard of living for women declined 73%, compared with an increase of 42% for men. Richard Peterson calls Weitzman's methodology into question, using the same data to calculate a 27% decrease for women and a 10% ...

  8. Palimony in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Included in the liner notes for Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet album is a thank you to the group's "expensive lawyers" for helping them to negotiate alimony and palimony payments. Seeking palimony was an option considered by the lawyer Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott) during an episode of Drop Dead Diva, where one man married two women. The women ...

  9. Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act - Wikipedia

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    In 1910, the National Conference of Commissions on Uniform State Laws approved the Uniform Desertion and Non-Support Act.The act made it a punishable offense for a spouse to desert, willfully neglect, or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of the other spouse in destitute or necessitous circumstances, or for a parent to fail in the same duty to their child less than 16 years of age.