Alimony vs. Spousal Support: What’s The Difference?
What color is a zebra? You think that’s a (you can choose: cutesy, smart-ass, or trick) question, but it is not. Grevy’s zebra1, for example, is ...
July 1 Marks Huge Spousal Support Law Changes with Wide Effects
The full retirement age is increasing. That is not us talking; that is the Social Security Administration (SSA). Beginning with folks born in 1938 and continuing ...
Can My Ex-Wife Be Forced to Get a Job?
If your wife happens to be an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, she should be working. She is in the category of the highest-paid jobs in Virginia, ...
Can I Get Alimony If My Wife Makes More Than Me?
A gathering of geese is a gaggle, and a gaggle of geese can mean both geese and ganders, because — though all geese (females) are geese, ...
Divorcing as the Breadwinner? File in 2018 to Miss Huge Tax Changes.
You may argue the political disingenuousness of the name of the recently passed tax law, “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” depending on whether or not you ...
Can Alimony or Spousal Support Be Changed After Divorce?
The Virginia judge who decreed you and your ex-wife were divorced did so with documents and stipulations. The basics, of course: child visitation and custody, child support ...
Inquiring Minds Want to Know … Is It Really Cheaper to Keep Her?
The song Cheaper to Keep Her by Johnnie Taylor is packed with advice on divorce and marriage. Does Taylor's advice still ring true 44 years after ...
Do I Have to Pay Alimony if My Wife Cheated?
Few wounds in a crumbling marriage cut as deeply as adultery. Finding out your wife cheated on you constricts you like a coiling snake, cutting off ...
What is Lump Sum Spousal Support?
Rose Ditano of Penhook, Virginia (over there in Franklin County) won $1 million in the Virginia Lottery recently1. She got it all in a lump sum, ...