Spousal maintenance varies considerably depending on your particular circumstances and those of your spouse.
In divorces between two professionals with steady careers who haven’t had a long marriage, you may not have to pay spousal maintenance at all.
In other situations, you may pay spousal maintenance until your spouse remarries, or reaches an income threshold in the workplace.
Some maintenance is structured as regular payments, while others are handled as a single lump sum.
How, and for how long, you pay spousal maintenance involves many factors, including the length of your marriage, the relative earning power of each spouse, what sacrifices your spouse may have made in terms of career or education, health status, and more. It’s a very complex negotiation, and one that you should be very involved in, for your own good.
At Friedman & Ranzenhofer, we help people in Rochester arrive at fair settlements that protect their net worth and their future.
Call us today at 585-484-7432 for a legal consultation.