Many divorcing couples in New Jersey have to deal with matters like alimony. If there’s an agreement between the spouses, it’s possible to skip the traditional alimony route and go with an alternative instead. This might be a good solution if standard monthly alimony...
For a long time, the law in New Jersey was that alimony needed to be paid until an ex-spouse was remarried. When this law was first enacted, it made sense. But over the past few decades, attitudes about marriage have changed. Whereas there used to be stigma about...
Alimony is an important part of many divorces as it determines how much money one spouse will be paying the other for a set period of time. Under New Jersey law, a variety of factors are considered that determine how much alimony will be paid. If you're going through...
In the state of New Jersey, alimony may be included in a final divorce settlement. There are many factors that a judge will evaluate when determining if either party to a marriage should receive spousal support payments. These factors may include your age, your...
When a marriage ends in New Jersey, the courts and the interested parties often must grapple with a list of financial concerns. Some of these concerns rest on the ability of the parties to pay for costs associated with legal action. Another central issue, the matter...
Alimony may seem like an outdated concept. When it originated, it was during a time when women stayed home to tend the children and the house, and men were the only ones working and supporting the household. At that time, the goal was to ensure the wife had the proper...
Your experience as a parent may involve caring for a child with special needs. This makes the subject of alimony a more critical one for you since your child requires special and more expensive care. You should know whether a court will give special weight to your...
You can find a New Jersey alimony calculator relatively easily online. How accurate are these tools? Unfortunately, the answer is that they may not apply to your unique situation. Alimony is more than just a three-point, simple calculation. Like many other aspects of...
Originally called alimony, courts have awarded spousal support payments as part of divorce proceedings for decades. In recent years, however, a new wrinkle to the traditional payments by husbands to wives has begun to emerge: manimony. If you have never heard this...
The judge in your divorce case will consider a variety of factors when determining whether to allocate alimony. One of those is your contributions to the marriage. At Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith, P.A., we want to help you to understand this factor better so that you...