A judge would also consider whether spousal maintenance is likely to be needed.

The situation gets even more complicated when one is talking about spousal maintenance.

Debts due to spousal maintenance and penalties are not included.

Applications for spousal maintenance must be made within 12 months of your divorce becoming final.

It should be noted that domestic partners cannot claim spousal maintenance.

Before 27 December 2000, parties to a marriage could make an agreement for spousal maintenance and register this in a court.

However, the criteria for making a property order or spousal maintenance order are different.

Will one partner or the other pay spousal maintenance (read, alimony), in what amount and for how long?

A spousal maintenance order typically has a clause which states:

In many cases, an application for spousal maintenance needs to be made to the court urgently after separation.

Marital conduct: can it affect property settlement or spousal maintenance?

If you make an application to court for spousal maintenance, there are a number of factors which the court must consider.

How can I recognise a spousal maintenance order?

Briand feels that provincial spousal maintenance or support obligations are at risk too.

He argued that the contract settled property issues, while Islamic law limited spousal maintenance payments to her to three months.

On top of this liable parents can be made to pay additional spousal maintenance and get less than half the matrimonial property under other Acts.

A spousal maintenance agreement may be changed by:

Also referred to as alimony or spousal maintenance.

Child support, spousal maintenance and/or alimony would be clearly and explicitly separated.

From whom can spousal maintenance be claimed?

However, spousal maintenance may be affected by repartnering.

Justice Richardson's paper included an appendix which shows that awards for spousal maintenance are already being made by the Court.

Conferences are offered for parenting issues, spousal maintenance, division of matrimonial property, and some civil law disputes.

It was in an application, which I have launched for variation of Spousal Maintenance.

Prescribed payments can only be credited against a child support liability and not a liability for spousal maintenance.