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Calculating Spousal Maintenance
Learn about spousal maintenance including what it is, what the court considers in a spousal maintenance application and calculating spousal maintenance payments. What is spousal maintenance? Spousal maintenance is a payment made from one party to their former...
Financial Agreements & Spousal Maintenance & Income tested benefits
Pre-Nuptial Financial Agreements & Spousal Maintenance clauses are frequently the subject of litigation post separation. It is common that parties will include a provision in relation to spousal maintenance in a binding financial agreement which states that...
Bodilly & Hand: Spousal Maintenance ordered 17 years after separation
What is Spousal Maintenance? Spousal Maintenance is financial support paid by one party to a marriage/de facto relationship to their former partner/spouse in circumstances where they are unable to adequately support themselves. Under the Family Law Act 1975, a person...
Does your Financial Agreement Protect you from a maintenance claim?
Financial Agreements are often used as an effective way of protecting you from a spousal maintenance claim by your ex partner. A Binding Financial Agreement, when prepared properly, is capable of ousting the court’s jurisdiction to hear a spousal maintenance...
Spousal Maintenance – Do I have to support my ex after divorce?
What is Spousal Maintenance? Spousal Maintenance is financial support paid by one party to a marriage/de facto relationship to their former partner/spouse in circumstances where they are unable to adequately support themselves. Under the Family Law Act 1975, a person...
