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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.
The determination of alimony varies greatly from state to state within the U.S. [40] Some state statutes, including those of Texas, Montana, Kansas, Utah, Kentucky and Maine, give explicit guidelines to judges on the amount and/or duration of alimony. In Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee, for example, alimony is awarded only in cases of marriage ...
Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional. [ a ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Court reaffirmed the concept of a " right to privacy " that earlier cases had found the U.S. Constitution provides, even though it ...
Divorce drama. Malik Beasley’s estranged wife, Montana Yao, was denied temporary spousal support by Minnesota court on Monday, March 29, Us Weekly can confirm, following his PDA scandal with ...
A Social Security spousal rule that was around for decades ended this year for the last eligible retirees — those who turned 70 on Jan. 1, 2024. The rule allowed recipients to switch between ...
Fighting back. Gleb Savchenko responded to estranged wife Elena Samodanova’s divorce petition with requests of his own. DWTS' Gleb Savchenko and Elena Samodanova: The Way They Were Read article ...
The Texas Family Code does not provide for "palimony.” This means you cannot gain rights under the Texas Family Code because you lived with someone absent a valid marriage. You can, however, create an agreement "on consideration of nonmarital conjugal cohabitation" under the Texas Business and Commerce Code (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 26.01(b)(3)).
Issues may arise in family law where there is a question as to the laws of the jurisdiction that apply to the marriage relationship or to custody and divorce, and whether a divorce or child custody order is recognized under the laws of another jurisdiction.