Simple math dictates that two households cost more to run than one. Expecting to maintain your current standard of living based solely on Child support and Spousal support payments will prove to be difficult, because the court knows your ex now also has a household to maintain.
Of course, anything can happen in the future – you could win the lottery, for example – but there are far more...
Alimony and/or child support are items that are decided in the court of a family judge. While these items come up in every divorce case, it is possible to determine the likelihood of being awarded child support or alimony based on the basics that family judges use to make these awards.
These are monetary penalties levied on one side in the divorce so that the other side can support the...
