Alimony
Articles about alimony in Georgia, including types, determination, enforcement, and tax implications.
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Alimony vs. Equitable Division vs. Property Settlement
Georgia treats alimony, equitable division, and a property settlement as three different things, and the difference decides what can change later.
Read MoreCan You Get Palimony in Georgia After a Breakup?
Georgia has no palimony. A promise of support in exchange for living together as a couple is void, though claims not founded on the relationship survive.
Read MoreWhat Is Alimony in Georgia and How Does It Work?
Alimony in Georgia is support paid out of one spouse's estate to the other once they live apart. What it is, when it is awarded, and the forms it can take.
Read MoreWhat Is Periodic Alimony in a Georgia Divorce?
Periodic alimony in Georgia is support paid in installments whose total is not fixed. That is why it can be modified and why it ends at death or remarriage.
Read MoreCan Alimony Be a Percentage of Income in Georgia?
Georgia enforces alimony set as a percentage of the paying spouse's income, awarded or agreed, so long as the income base is defined well enough to compute.
Read MoreCost-of-Living Adjustments to Alimony in Georgia
A Georgia alimony award can adjust itself, but only from a definite base amount and on a specified financial change, not on the passage of time alone.
Read MoreIncorporating an Alimony Agreement Into the Decree
Once a Georgia decree incorporates an alimony agreement it is enforced by contempt, changed only by the court, and terms beyond a judge's power are locked in.
Read MoreSocial Security and Alimony Offsets in Georgia
A Georgia alimony payer gets no automatic credit when the former spouse draws Social Security on his record, but his own benefits can count as income.
Read MoreSubstituting Property for Cash Alimony in Georgia
A Georgia spouse ordered to pay cash alimony cannot swap in property or a set-off on his own; a substitute counts only if the recipient or court accepted it.
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