In a recent Reuters article about a Nashville divorce case involving an entrepreneur husband and orthopedic surgeon wife, contributor Geoff Williams wrote: “Society is starting to catch up to the law. In 1979, with Orr vs. Orr, the Supreme Court made it clear that there shouldn’t be gender bias when it comes to alimony. Yet
Spousal support or “alimony” has been part of divorce law for centuries (yes, centuries). Separate and apart from child support—which is calculated based on certain fixed factors such as number of children, incomes, and parenting responsibilities—alimony may take into account an even wider range of issues, and trial judges are given wide discretion in determining
When it comes to divorce, there can be a lot of questions. Finding the answers to these questions shouldn’t be difficult, but once you start researching, you end up with thousands of resources that offer differing, vague, and often incorrect information on the process of divorce. For this reason, we receive calls on an almost daily