Blog Posts in Alimony

Divorce impacts the lives of all involved, but for the stay at home parent, a divorce can create financial turmoil. Most stay at home parents are women, who already face a significant wage gap in the ...

When does a court order spousal maintenance? A divorce can leave you in a difficult financial position. Splitting apart a household often results in one partner having less income or assets. While ...

When is spousal support awarded in Texas? TV personality Bethenny Frankel recently won a significant victory in court when a judge ruled her spousal support obligation to estranged husband Jason Hoppy ...

Are you experiencing financial difficulty during or following your divorce action? Under the Texas Family Code, spousal maintenance is awarded when one spouse cannot provide for their own needs ...

When does "living together" constitute common law marriage resulting in an end to alimony payments? When a divorced spouse who receives alimony remarries, the alimony payments are expected to come to ...

How is alimony affected by the cohabitation of the spouse receiving it? Divorce is difficult under any circumstances, usually involving financial, as well as emotional, stress. In recent years, when ...