Alimony and Spousal Maintenance Attorney in Everett, Washington

What is your approach in negotiating spousal maintenance matters?

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the approach that I’ve used consistently

for 30 years now I call it the

three-legged approach if you think of a

stool that’s balanced on three legs one

of which is spousal support the other is

assets and the other well one is assets

one is spousal maintenance and one is

real estate to be honest and if you have

all three you have a pretty balanced

stool if your spousal maintenance leg is

longer you know you get a little tippy

right so I try to really work with

people to think of it as just a way to

balance either real estate and

investments or some other asset base if

all you have is spousal maintenance you

can think of it as like the old ice

cream bar stools right it’s a pretty

solid base and that’s what we look at

and I try to give people that approach

to think about because it helps

visually and consistently with the idea

that we’re trying to get you to the end

of your marriage all sitting sort of

balanced on a stool

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Everett, WA family law attorney Sabrina Layman talks about her approach in negotiating spousal maintenance matters.