An Alimony Attorney Makes Sure Everyone Plays Fair

If you are on the brink of a divorce, you most likely have a thousand things going through your head every day including the cost of divorce. This is an event that is totally unplanned and can turn out to be stressful as well. Among all the topics that come up, money is on of the more important ones, so now is the time to talk to an alimony attorney about receiving money for support during and after the divorce. Alimony is intended to help the spouse get back on their feet after a considerable income has been lost. There are a few ways to approach it, so know your options before you make any decisions.

What many people don’t realize is that you can start to get alimony payments while the divorce is still in process. The final stage of the proceedings sometimes can take a long time to approach, and you’re going to need monetary support throughout the process. This is something the alimony attorney can help determine for you. Either way, you have to file for alimony before the divorce has gone through. It must be included in the divorce agreement in order for it to be put into action. The court will uphold this agreement, but it’s up to the divorcee to make sure that they don’t stand in contempt by making the payments that the court ordered.

There are two different kinds of alimony that can be agreed upon. Most of the time, rehabilitative alimony is the one that the paying spouse will agree on. This simply means that they will only have to pay the money for a certain amount of time. Once the period of time has passed, it’s assumed that the spouse has had adequate time to figure out how to support themselves from there on out. An alimony attorney can explain all this to you according to your situation.

Tim LO

Tim is a love coach and writer for Love Openly.

He has qualifications in NLP, hypnotherapy and stress management. HPD, DipHyp, DipNLP, CertSM