In Texas, there are two kinds of post-divorce spousal support . The first is court-ordered spousal maintenance. The second is contractual alimony. The ...
One of the most frequently cited reasons why a person may attempt to delay a divorce has to do with their finances. When you are not working and ...
If the most common question that we receive at our office regarding spousal maintenance and contractual alimony is how long a spouse can receive this ...
Are you about to start a divorce but have no clue about spousal maintenance ? Have you talked to family members who live in other states about divorce ...
If you are a person who is obligated to pay your ex-spouse a certain amount of spousal maintenance for a certain amount of years, today’s blog post ...
In the first part of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC's series of blog posts on Spousal Maintenance in Texas divorces, we discussed court-ordered ...
In Texas, a family court cannot order alimony to be paid by one ex-spouse to another. We hear about alimony as a topic on television shows and in the ...
When it comes to understanding a complex subject like alimony in Texas, you must be able to consider not only what the Texas Family Code has to say ...
Concerns over supporting yourself both during the divorce and after may be holding you back from filing a case. It can be pretty stressful to be in a ...
If you have been away from our blog for a little while then you probably missed the first few installments of our blog posts that cover the subject of ...
Frequently referred to as "alimony," spousal maintenance is a relatively recent phenomenon. Texas was the last state in the country to create a law ...
If you believe that you need to get a divorce from your spouse but are hesitant to move forward due to concerns that you have regarding your ability ...
One of the aspects of a divorce that can be positive, on some level, is the degree of closure that you can experience at the end of a case. Not only ...
Besides issues relating to your children, financial questions are probably the most frequently asked of family law attorneys. I can tell you that from ...
I think we all have a family member, friend of neighbor who has told us horror stories about their divorce. By God, they went through a divorce that ...
In 2011, the State of Texas passed laws that change the manner in which you can be eligible to receive spousal maintenance via a court order. The laws ...
Has anyone ever told you that Texas is like its own country? Anyone who went through middle school in Texas must have taken Texas history. In that ...
Depending upon the circumstances of your divorce, one of the major issues that you may be facing has to do with the subject of spousal maintenance or ...
What most of us know as " alimony " is not available in Texas. Movies and television shows talk about alimony in the context of highly contentious ...
If you are someone who has remained in a bad or failing marriage due to concerns over your finances after the divorce, then I want you to pay close ...
Growing up, did your mother ever tell you that, "Honesty is the best policy"? When in doubt, tell the truth, is basically what this boils down to. ...
One of the concepts in family law that we are asked quite a bit about here at the Law Office of Bryan Fagan is alimony. This is a subject that we hear ...
It is a relevant question to want to know the state of alimony in Texas. For many years, Texas did not even have alimony . However, in recent years ...
If you are contemplating a divorce or are being forced to contemplate a divorce because your spouse has already taken the liberty of filing one, your ...
Spousal maintenance represents money paid from one spouse to the other to help support them after a divorce . These payments are temporary, though in ...
Determining whether you will have to pay alimony or spousal maintenance in your Texas divorce is a critical question to ask yourself. To be sure, the ...
Let's suppose that you have already gone through a divorce case and have been ordered to pay spousal maintenance as a part of your trial. In that ...
Suppose you are in a position where you are asking for spousal maintenance as a disabled person during your divorce. In that case, you may first be ...
Alimony is a subject that is brought up a lot in divorce cases. I think that because it is a subject that we hear about a lot in movies and television ...
Trying to determine how a family court judge will rule regarding post-divorce spousal maintenance does not have to be a guessing game. Rather, there ...