Should I Tell My Wife I Want A Divorce While Deployed

Ask A Lawyer Question: I am currently in the military and deployed to Afghanistan. I have recently found out my wife of a little over a year is cheating on me. I’m wondering if it would be wise strategy to make her aware of my intentions to divorce while deployed, …

Do child support laws consider alimony as income?

Question: Do child support laws consider my ex-wife’s alimony payments as income? She is receiving $1,000 a month, so can that income be used when determining child support and the percentage of above and beyond items, such as day care?

Financial Advice On Divorce: Alimony Modification Because Of Remarriage

Question: I’m looking for financial advice on divorce on the chances my alimony payments will be decreased based on my remarriage. Since I am going to be financially responsible for another wife and more children, can I get an alimony modification?

Joseph Cordell Discusses Child Custody On Fox News Radio

DadsDivorce.com founder Joseph Cordell appeared on “The Tom Sullivan Show” to discuss how child custody battles are being heavily influenced by family law judges’ biases toward divorced dads. “One purpose of the law is to protect us from those leanings of individual judges, but once you give a judge such …

Collecting Overdue Child Support Payments

Question: I am looking for financial advice on divorce, specifically how to collect child support payments. Per our divorce and child custody agreements, my ex-wife is expected to pay me child support once she finds a full-time job since I have primary physical custody. The agreement states that if within …

Can I Modify Alimony As A Result Of Unemployment?

Question: In our divorce and child custody agreement, I agreed to pay my wife alimony in the amount of 50% of my earnings for life. Since the judgment was entered, I have lost my job so I want to modify the amount of alimony to reflect changes in my life …

Why do I have to pay alimony while our divorce is pending?

Question: Why am I being forced to pay alimony to my wife when we are still married and our divorce is not finalized? Does this mean I will have to continue paying her alimony even after we’re divorced?

Enforcing U.S. divorce court orders if living in another country

Question: I have a court order to pay alimony to my ex-wife. However, I have moved to another country (Australia). What jurisdiction does the state have in Australia to force me to continue to pay spousal support?

Can she get more alimony after our agreement ends?

Question: Can my ex-wife take me back to court after our five-year non-modifiable alimony agreement ends in order to continue receiving spousal support?

How does an affair affect divorce rulings?

Question: My wife is having an open affair that she freely admits to me and to our divorce attorneys. How will her affair affect the divorce? Can she still get alimony if she’s the one who caused the divorce? Can I stop her from having an affair?