Firm News and Law Updates
If you owe alimony to your former spouse and fail to pay, you will still have to make that payment in the near future. If you fail to make the alimony payment on time, then you are considered to be in arrears and/or in contempt. This means you are behind on paying the amount of alimony owed. This balance will not automatically disappear. Instead, you will be obligated to make any missed and current payments until you are all caught up on payments.
Read MorePennsylvania courts do not pre-determine which spouse will be subject to paying alimony to the other spouse. Similar to their method of choosing how much a spouse will pay in alimony, the courts examine the same 17 factors to determine which spouse will need to pay.
Read MoreThere is no clear-cut rule on how much alimony you will owe your spouse or how much your spouse may owe you. Instead, Pennsylvania courts weigh many factors to determine the amount of alimony due.
Read MoreThe end of a marriage is a difficult time for anyone, and the financial consequences of untangling two lives can make it even worse. Although each is unique, alimony, spousal support and child support are all similar in the sense that one spouse is making a payment for the benefit of someone else (the other spouse or the parties’ children).
Read MoreThey say to everything there is a season. The same can be said for your divorce. There are three seasons to a divorce: pre-, pending, and post-divorce. Just as each season in life has its own set of characteristics, each divorce season has its own type of support.
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