After years of marriage, there are likely to be strong feelings regarding spousal support. Here's how courts tend to view ...

In its ruling (2024 INSC 961), the Supreme Court outlined eight factors that affect how alimony amounts are calculated. While presenting these seven factors, the Supreme Court mentioned that these are ...

Q. My husband and I want to agree that neither of us will pay alimony and neither of us will have the right to ask the court for alimony in the future. We asked the mediator to write the agreement ...

Often used interchangeably, the terms alimony and spousal maintenance both refer to different types of financial support paid by one spouse to another, during or following a divorce. Understanding the ...

How many of you thought alimony was no longer deductible? Well, it is still deductible, but only for divorces that occurred prior to 2019. (There are a lot of folks paying alimony from pre-2019 ...

In 1980 Pennsylvania revised its 1929 Divorce Code and for the first time allowed post divorce alimony. It was a tough legislative battle with conservative forces professing concern that divorce would ...

The Tax Court recently ruled that a taxpayer’s payments to an ex-spouse under the Uniform Services Former Spouse Protection Act (USFSPA) representing her share of his military retirement pay were ...

IRC section 215(a) says an individual who makes alimony payments may deduct them and the recipient must include them in his or her gross income. Under IRC section 71(b)(1), payments must meet four ...