Alimony and Spousal Maintenance Attorney in Rockville, Maryland
When and how is alimony, also called spousal support, awarded in Maryland?
When and how is alimony, also called spousal support, awarded in Maryland?
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the terms are interchangeable I think
most people call it alimony but they
mean the same thing and alimony can be
awarded at any time in a divorce
proceeding uh beginning middle or end
based on need and ability to pay and
other factors in Maryland there are two
types of alimony so there’s
rehabilitative alimony and indefinite
alimony and they are exactly what they
sound like so rehabilitative alimony is
alimony designed to give one spouse who
is not self-supporting at that time
enough uh resources to become
self-supporting maybe he or she needs
more education more time in her current
or his current job to develop an
increased earning capacity and so the
court will fashion a customize award to
that spouse BAS Bas on the ability to
pay of the other spouse to help that
spouse become self-supporting during the
time period they think is necessary
there’s no hard and fast rule on the
time or the amount and then indefinite
alimony is just that it’s indefinite
until the spouse receiving alimony um
either remarries or either party dies
and that is awarded in a case where
perhaps the spouse who is not
self-supporting will never be
self-supporting perhaps by disability
perhaps by age or by lack of Education a
lack ability to get education for
whatever reason they won’t become
self-supporting and the other spouse has
the ability to support them and perhaps
there is an unconscionable disparity
between their resources that’s where the
court will then try and fashion a word
not to equalize them but to bridge the
gap on this unconscionable disparity by
uh setting an amount award that is
subject to
modification um down the road it’s set
up indefinitely and either party can
come back later and modify it
Rockville, MD family law attorney Stuart Skok talks about when and how alimony, also called spousal support, is awarded in Maryland.
