Spousal Support

Overview provided by divorce attorney Meredith Weiner on how alimony is calculated. Typically courts will consider whether the person who is paying can afford to pay and whether the recipient has a need for the money. Factors include length of marriage, income, work history and more. You can use our Nevada alimony calculator to determine an estimate of how much spousal support could be.

You must personally serve your spouse with divorce papers. What if you lost track of your spouse and no longer know where they are living? What if you can't find your spouse to serve the divorce papers? This comes up quite a bit. People get married, then separate, go their separate ways, and don't keep track of each other. Later, one of them wants a divorce but can't find the other spouse. Well, we're going to have to do our best to find them. We can hire investigators, look them up on Facebook, or reach out to family or friends. We want to find them so we can serve them the divorce papers. Once you find out where they last lived, you can serve the papers at their last known address. If ...

Divorce Lawyers Stacy Rocheleau explains how spousal support (aka alimony) is calculated. Stacy is the founding attorney of Right Divorce Lawyers. For over 14 years Right Divorce Lawyers has helped people with divorce, legal separation, and annulments. You can use our Nevada alimony calculator to determine an estimate of how much spousal support could be.

Child custody attorney Laura Johns talks about child custody and whether judges prefer mothers over fathers. Laura is a divorce lawyer with Right Divorce Lawyers. For over 14 years Right Divorce Lawyers has helped people with divorce, legal separation, and annulments.

It depends. The amount of spousal support ordered can vary greatly between cases. A typical ruling is for 1/3 of the difference in income between the parties for about 1/2 the length of the marriage. So if one party makes $100,000 and the other party makes $40,000 and the parties were married for 10 years - You might expect a spousal support award around $20,000/year for about 5 years.

You can request that they do so. And there are certain situations in which the judge will order this. Some of these situations may include: if the other party is the primary breadwinner, or if the other party disrupts the discovery process and fails to comply with certain requests.

Divorce attorney Carlia Waite discusses the myth that courts prefer mothers over fathers for custody matters. Carlia has been a divorce attorney for 12 years.

In this video, divorce attorney Rock Rocheleau explains when a Malmquist calculation is used. The Malmquist calculation was derived from a case where one party owned a property prior to the marriage but during the marriage used income (which is community property) to pay the mortgage on the property. The judge ruled that a portion of the equity in the home should be considered community property. The Malmquist calculation would be used in this set of circumstances. When is a Malmquist calculation used? So, Malmquist calculation is named after a famous case, Malmquist. And what happened is you had a spouse that owned a separate property home – it's a home that he owned before the ...