With such a short term marriage & no kids, in my state, you'd probably not have to pay support at all. If you paid anything at all in our state, it'd probably be more like $330 for a 15 months with a MAX of 2.5 years... Not fair, but if you think that she's got to learn to live without as much as she could afford when she was with you, it's the nice thing to do, to give her a little ease in the budget for a year or so.

But truly, a marriage as short as you, where she got a degree & a career out of it, is not worth requiring you to pay for it.

She should get the $15K in loans that go with her degree, either of you buys the otehr out of the house (a better option in this market so you can hold it till a better time to sell) or you sell it & split the proceeds (or excess debt).

What's left is joint debt. See if she'll let you pay all the debt off in exchange for waiving alimony altogether. Not that it's a good deal, just that it makes a clean break & saves a whole lot more in legal fees than you'd be paying in realistic alimony over time. And it keeps your credit clear by making certian YOU are in charge of paying off the joint debt.

Good luck & let us know how this turns out. Truly, if you end up in front of a judge who makes you pay anythign at all I'd be surprised UNLESS the judge was angry at you for turning down a REASONABLE and LOW offer from her & thought you'd wasted time & legal fees by challenging something that was ultimately not going to cost as much as the legal fees of paying it would have cost. (is that clear as mud?)