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Temporary alimony: Support ordered when the parties are separated prior to divorce. Also called alimony pendente lite, which is Latin, meaning, "pending the suit". Rehabilitative alimony: Support given to a lesser-earning spouse for a period of time necessary to acquire paid work and become self-sufficient.
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.
Alimony is a court-ordered sum that one former spouse must pay to another due to a separation or divorce agreement. You might sometimes hear about spousal maintenance or spousal support, which are ...
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)).
A divorce settlement entails which spouse gets what property and what responsibilities once the marriage is over. "It deals with child custody and visitation, child support, alimony, health and life insurance, real estate, cars, household items, bank accounts, debts, investments, retirement plans and pensions, college tuition for children, and other items of value, such as frequent flyer miles ...
A fault divorce is a divorce which is granted after the party asking for the divorce sufficiently proves that the other party did something wrong that justifies ending the marriage. [8] For example, in Texas, grounds for an "at-fault" divorce include cruelty, adultery, a felony conviction, abandonment, living apart, and commitment in a mental ...
Code Laws §§ 25-7-6.1 et seq. [90] Office of Child Support Enforcement [91] Tennessee Child Support Guidelines [92] Child Support Services [93] Texas Family Code §§ 154.001 et seq. [94] Attorney General Child Support Services [95] Utah Code §§ 78B-12-202 et seq., [96] based on the Income Shares model [13] Office of Recovery Services [97 ...
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