Taxes are already complicated enough without adding divorce or dependents to the mix. But if you've been making or receiving alimony or child support payments, you need to know how those payments ...

To the extent that a payment under a divorce or separation instrument is fixed or treated as fixed as support for a child of the payor spouse, it will not be treated as alimony. Thus, such a payment ...

For restaurant owners, divorce brings a unique set of challenges—especially when it comes to financial obligations like alimony and child support. Unlike salaried employees with predictable income, ...

Getting divorced is stressful enough, and even more so when you consider the financial and tax implications that come with it. In terms of alimony, you might have questions about how to report alimony ...

Even though child support and alimony payments are spelled out in explicit detail as part of divorce settlement agreements, most divorced women and children don’t receive the money they are owed. In ...

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Q. My ex is taking me back to court to change the support order – he wants more alimony now that our teenage kids have moved in with me full time and the court ended his child support. He didn’t work ...

IF YOU AGREE to pay "alimony" to your ex, you are certainly counting on being able to write off those payments. Indeed, properly structured payments are deductible on your return (good for you) and ...

After 12 years of marriage, my husband and I separated. We get along well so we decided to represent ourselves. In August, he moved to Rhode Island to take his dream teaching job. Our daughters stayed ...