Child support may be ordered any time there is an absent parent. Alimony or maintenance is almost always temporary - until the obligee can become self-sufficient.
Added: You can't have it both ways. You can speak with your church or religious leader about the possibility of the marriage being annulled in the eyes of the church, but (especially since there were children of the marriage) you cannot have it ruled, as a matter of law, that the marriage never occurred in the first place. The most you can hope for civilly is a divorce. HOWEVER - as the father of the children (either natural or adoptive), the father will be held responsible for contributing a certain amount to the support of the child(ren). Any alimony for the spouse would become a subject to be settled in the divorce action.
No. Alimony is ordered as part of the dissolution of a marriage. Unmarried partners are not entitled to alimony. See related question link.No. Alimony is ordered as part of the dissolution of a marriage. Unmarried partners are not entitled to alimony. See related question link.No. Alimony is ordered as part of the dissolution of a marriage. Unmarried partners are not entitled to alimony. See related question link.No. Alimony is ordered as part of the dissolution of a marriage. Unmarried partners are not entitled to alimony. See related question link.
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If you are court ordered to pay alimony, losing your job does not automatically negate that order. However, it may give you grounds to go back to the court and request a modification of the order, terminating the alimony obligation. If you are in the process of a divorce and become unemployed, it is unlikely that you will be ordered to pay alimony, but not impossible.
if so ordered by a judge YES ...
Yes.
Yes. If you're ordered to pay alimony, that status does nothing to change it, although it may be possible to use that in appealing an alimony ruling.
No. Alimony by definition is payment made by a spouse as ordered by the court. The "lover" has no responsibility for you. Don't even go there.
if so ordered by a judge YES ...
In the US, no, a person cannot legally withhold alimony they've been ordered to pay. Of course they can petition the court to have the alimony terminated based on the fact that the recipient is living with someone else. Rather or not the court will do that, depends on the state laws.
This question is answered in the divorce decree. If you are ordered to pay alimony, there will be stipulations and usually a specific length of time. Look at your divorce papers and that will tell you.
It's possible, yes.
As a means of punishing him for moving on with his life? Alimony would have been ordered at the initial divorce, not later.