Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

As 2019 begins, the big news in divorce is implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 ("Trump Tax”) and its key provision that changes the way alimony has been taxed for decades. Under old ...

Alimony has two important tax statuses. If you finalized your divorce before Jan. 1, 2019, the person who collects alimony pays taxes on this money. This means that the person who pays alimony can ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Alimony dates back centuries. The original idea was that once married, a man is responsible for a woman till death. But that notion has shifted in recent decades, as more women have jobs and their own ...

Discrepancies between the amount of alimony deducted by payers and reported as income by its recipients increased by 38% in six years, to $3.2 billion for tax year 2016, the Treasury Inspector General ...

"Lately, whenever young mothers ask me about staying home with my children, I admit that I’m not sure it was worth the sacrifice..." ...

The amount of alimony payable in gray divorce can be a surprise. Source: Rodnae Productions/Pexels Gray divorce refers to couples 50 and older. I recently spoke with Lili Vasileff, a Certified Divorce ...

In divorce situations, one spouse or ex-spouse may become legally obligated to make payments to the other party. Since these payments are often substantial, locking in tax deductions for the payer has ...

Debbie Leff Israel has a math problem. Like so many math problems, it’s also a romantic problem. In 2009, Leff Israel, a divorced math professor, connected on Facebook with a friend from high school ...

Editor’s Note: Wendy Murphy teaches at New England Law School in Boston and is a former visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. She is a lawyer who specializes in the representation of women and ...

Crystal Harris was ordered to pay her ex-husband alimony upon his release. March 21, 2012— -- A woman who was sexually assaulted by her husband and then ordered by the court to pay alimony and ...