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Hi

Just a quick question.. A man and woman have been married for 14 years, the man and woman seperate, within a month of seperation the man is in a car accident and he "claims" he can't work due to horrible pain (but not enough pain to stop going camping and traveling long distances) he ends up getting a large sum of alimony from the wife.  The man sues the other person involved in the accident and it drags on for a long time.  Meanwhile the divorce is granted and the woman starts to pay alimony to the man, he gets a job that pays way less than he is qualified for (has an associates degree) the court case with the accident is finally settled and he ends up with 148,000.00 in settlement, is the woman entitled to half of this seeing how it happened when they were married and she is paying him alimony because he is under employed and he is in lots of "pain"?  This is a true story it is happening to someone I know.

She's probably not going to get any of it.  But she can use it in conjunction with his working to try and end or lower alimony. 

Already had a court hearing on that...it was denied to lower alimony...this sucks big time

Quote from: WIMomof6 on Sep 09, 2009, 01:17:04 PM
Already had a court hearing on that...it was denied to lower alimony...this sucks big time

The accident happened after separation.  She's not getting any of the money. 

And it appears the court isn't going to take his windfall into consideration so she's pretty much stuck.  Is there an end date to alimony?  A co-habitation clause?  If there is either, for the first, she will want the paperwork ready to file a couple of months before the end date asking the court to end alimony on the end date so that she doesn't overpay.  If the latter is there, she's going to have to prove he's co-habitating if she suspects he is. 

Assuming the story and accusations are true - she's not going to get out from under her responsibilities to support her ex-spouse.