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2. Getting a Divorce? What You Need to Know about Alimony - AOL

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   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 ...

3. Grounds for divorce (United States) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Alimony - Wikipedia

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   The determination of alimony varies greatly from state to state within the U.S. [6] 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 ...

5. Divorce in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, marriage and divorce fall under the jurisdiction of state governments, not the federal government. Although such matters are usually ancillary or consequential to the dissolution of the marriage, divorce may also involve issues of spousal support, child custody, child support, distribution of property and division of debt.

6. Domestic relations - Wikipedia

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   In the common law tradition, the law of domestic relations is a broad category that encompasses: . divorce;; property settlements;; alimony, spousal support, or other maintenance;

7. Domestic partnership in Texas - Wikipedia

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   On February 18, 2014, a same-sex couple, married in Washington D.C., filed for divorce and child custody lawsuit. [46] On April 23, 2014, Judge Barbara Nellermoe, of the 45th Judicial District Court of Bexar County, ruled that three portions of the Texas Family Code, as well as Section 32 of the Texas Constitution, were unconstitutional. [47]

8. Opinion: This Texas woman is exposing a chilling truth about ...

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   Kate Cox, a Texas woman who had to ask a judge to end a pregnancy after discovering her child had an almost always fatal genetic condition, is a reminder of the priorities of state abortion laws ...

9. Palimony in the United States - Wikipedia

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   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)).