Spousal support is money that one spouse pays to the other after they have decided to end their marriage. It’s meant to help you land on your feet and maintain the standard of living you were used to during the marriage. This will be important if you can’t afford to support yourself or your children without your spouse’s income.
How do you get spousal support?
The court considers several statutory factors when it decides if you or your spouse should get spousal support.
Like many other issues that must be sorted out when a marriage ends, spousal support is something you can define in your dissolution paperwork or request in divorce temporary orders. You can also recommend a specific amount during the divorce hearing process.
If you and your spouse can’t agree on the arrangement, the court will decide what’s fair for you both.
When the court makes a decision about spousal support, it will include the amount of money you or your spouse will pay and for how long. For example, $200 a month for two years, $500 a month for a year and so on.
The court will review the facts and make an order that is fair and equitable to both spouses based on the length of your marriage, the receiving spouse’s need and the other spouse’s ability to pay. In Ohio, there is no set length of marriage that triggers spousal support. Usually, the court will not consider awarding spousal support to a party married less than five years; however, in our experience, spousal support is generally not at issue unless the parties have been married for around ten years.
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