Unlike child support, spousal support is often very difficult (if not impossible) to modify after the divorce is final, so getting it right the first time is a must!
thanks all! I really apprciate the postings. i have talked to an attorney and he feels he can "get me off" with just 3.5 yrs of spousal support, same as child support.
The concept of being married and supporting someone for 20 years at a pretty decent level of living due to hard work and long hours. Being a loving husband and father. And then being kicked out of your nice comfortable home that my work got us into and made to live in substandard conditions and still supporting the one that is booting you, the one that has broken the vows, is just absurd! No one has mentioned maintaining my standard of living! I am the payor simply for making more money! Absurd! Can you help me with that concept?
Seriously, I want to be able to present that concept to her in a digestable manner, analogy, whatever. I don't want to put her on the defense. I just want to soften her up on this. I apperciate any and all insight to this. I'm not banking my case on it but i do think it will make a difference.
And thanks everyone for your replys so far, it helps, it really does.
Hey, has any one checked out that "spousal support" handbook advertised on this page? I know, that it is probably junk and it's just some opprotunist preying on the hurt and damaged...just wondering.