Is alimony a right for divorces or a business

[neerajchauhan]

Alimony or spousal support is a flexible financial tool for divorcing couples. It offers tax advantages that can help put more cash in the pockets of both alimony.

It's designed to provide the lower-income spouse with money for living expenses over and above the money provided by child support, alimony is very much in the discretion of the judge.

But when a women or a men does it again and again just to get the alimony or spousal support don't you think it becomes a business.

 

[dimpy.handa]

In order to constitute alimony, there are several requirements that you have to satisfy.
The payments must be in cash. Checks or money orders are acceptable, but not debt, property, or services.
The payments must be provided for in a divorce or a written agreement
You can't claim alimony during any year for which you file a joint tax return.
You can't pay alimony during a time when you and your spouse live in the same residence. And carving out separate quarters in the same residence doesn't count. Different bedrooms don't count. Different wings don't count. You have to live in separate dwellings under different roofs.
The payments have to stop when the recipient spouse dies.
This isn't really a requirement, but because you can opt out of alimony treatment, there's a logical provision that if you say it's not alimony, it's not alimony.