Parties to divorce sometimes feel that determining whether and how much to award a spouse in maintenance seems completely discretionary, especially compared to the chart…
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The Missouri General Assembly ended its regular session this past Friday. During the session, legislators introduced 16 different family law related bills, and none of…
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is now fully in effect, and as of January 1, 2019, all judgments of spousal support (or maintenance) in…
Given gender stereotypes, most of the history of divorce involves the man paying some form of alimony, or spousal support, to care for the woman….
Representative Jim Neely has introduced a bill in the Missouri General Assembly that seeks to bring significantly more structure to awards of maintenance (or spousal…
Divorce is a major, life-altering event in people’s lives. Few other life changes involve as much stress and upheaval. Consequently, it is not unusual for…
Many may know Tyrese Gibson from his role in the Fast and the Furious movies. He has been a successful actor and recently had a…
In our previous post, we explained how Missouri statute governs the modification of maintenance and that a party seeking a change must show a substantial…
You are paying your former spouse maintenance and you would like to pay less. Can you? Under what circumstances does the law allow you to…
The new tax law will make all alimony, known as maintenance in Missouri, non-deductible to the paying spouse and tax-free to the recipient spouse. So,…