Alimony for People Who Can’t Catch a Break in Life
When you search for information related to family law or estate planning, you can easily get the feeling that Google thinks that Internet users have more money than they do. The estate planning stuff talks about revocable trusts and the annual gift tax exclusion, when your only option is to work until your old bones are no longer capable of performing labor and thereafter to subsist on Social Security payments. The family law content talks about refinancing your mortgage and paying your ex-spouse an equalizing payment. It talks about parenting plans that accommodate extracurricular activities, as if you can afford to enroll your children in those. Likewise, content about alimony tends to focus on power couples where one spouse left the workforce to build the couple’s personal brand, or else on gold diggers and their egomaniac husbands who one-up each other with outrageous demands during their epic divorce litigation. Most divorce cases do not involve alimony awards, and when they do, it is because one spouse is genuinely unable to return to the workforce. Even though Florida has abolished permanent alimony, you still might have to spend years sharing your modest income with your former spouse. To assuage your fears about spending your golden years supporting your ex-spouse when your income is barely enough to support you, contact a Boca Raton alimony lawyer.
Three-Time Cancer Survivor Moves In With Boyfriend, but Only So Her Ex-Husband Can Have the Former Marital Home
A Florida couple stayed together through many hardships, divorcing when the youngest of their four children was in high school. During the marriage, the family survived mostly on the husband’s income, but not because the wife lacked the motivation to work. She suffered a series of health problems, but she worked part-time when she was well enough. Her health issues included three instances of cancer, an ankle injury, and a back injury. When the couple divorced, the court awarded the wife possession of the marital home, and it ordered the husband to pay monthly alimony payments.
This was not a financially sustainable arrangement, so the couple sought a different solution. Some divorced people move to flyover states to make their alimony check go farther, but that was not an option for this family, because they wanted to avoid making their son change schools. Therefore, the husband moved back into the marital home and, in order to reduce her expenses, the wife moved into her boyfriend’s house; he lived nearby, so the son could still attend his same school when he was with her. They managed to avoid the “ex-spouses living together under the same roof” drama, but the husband petitioned the court to let him stop paying alimony, since the former wife was cohabitating with her boyfriend.
Contact Schwartz | White About Divorce When No One Has Enough Money
A South Florida family law attorney can help you if you must pay alimony to your ex-spouse, even though you have never been wealthy. Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.
