For other uses, see Alimony (disambiguation). Family law Family Marriage and other unions and... [13] In states like Massachusetts and Louisiana, the salaries of new spouses may be used in...
BOSTON The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Monday that alimony should not automatically end when the paying spouse reaches retirement age and stops earning income. The ruling by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court comes at a time when some alimony payers and state lawmakers are pushing for changes to the state’s alimony laws, which they call overly harsh on higher-earning spouses. Those advocating the changes had hoped the court would effectively end lifetime alimony. The case pitted Rudolph F. Pierce, a former federal magistrate and ...
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Breakout Massachusetts 27 Impact of Legal Battles over Alimony on Children 28 Alimony Reform... that alimony "is an obligation established by law in many countries", specifying that the...
Unlike alimony, which is typically provided for by law, palimony is not guaranteed to unmarried partners. There must be a clear agreement, written or oral, by both partners stipulating the...
Massachusetts (which included Maine, 1652–1820) abolished common law marriage during the colonial period and before it was abolished in England and Wales. Alabama (2016) [23] Alaska...
A year after Massachusetts ended lifetime alimony, groups in a number of states are pushing similar legislation. They say alimony laws are outdated, based on a time when most women didn't work. But...
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In the 1996 comedy “First Wives Club,” actresses Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton play three divorced women who plot financial revenge on husbands who left them for younger women. ; The movie may be funny, but Lynn native Deborah Scanlon isn’t laughing. ; After Scanlon’s first marriage ended in divorce, the mother of three spent a decade financially rebuilding her life. So when she married divorcee Dan Gringas in 2005, Scanlon insisted on a pre-nup. ; “I had been burnt once,” Scanlon told me. And she counted on the pre-nup to protect her the second time around. What Scanlon didn’t realize was that the pre-nup was meaningless when it came to the total household income the probate court would consider when modifying Gringas’s alimony obligation to his ex-wife.