{"id":501,"date":"2016-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/27\/what-is-abandonment\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"what-is-abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/what-is-abandonment\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Abandonment&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>Ed: Originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YourPostDivorceCompass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>What is &#8220;abandonment&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Some people are afraid to leave the marital home because they don&#8217;t want to be accused of having &#8220;abandoned the marriage&#8221;. It is true that in many jurisdictions, proving that one spouse &#8220;abandons&#8221; the marriage or &#8220;deserts&#8221; the other spouse prevents the abandoning spouse from claiming alimony.<\/p>\n<p>However, abandonment is much more serious than that. In the first place, in most jurisdictions the abandonment has to have been for at least a year. There also has<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0to be an intention not to return to the marriage. That means if there is a good-faith reconciliation, and then the spouse leaves again, the clock starts all over again.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Moreover, if there is some agreement that the parties are separating, especially if it&#8217;s on a &#8220;trial&#8221; basis, that&#8217;s not abandonment. If one spouse was forced to leave the marital home &#8211; either literally or constructively (because the other spouse has made it intolerable to stay) &#8211; that&#8217;s not abandonment, either. (In fact, in that case, the argument could be made that the other spouse actually &#8220;constructively abandoned&#8221; the marriage.)<\/p>\n<p>Separating from your spouse as a prelude to divorce is often good planning, especially if it would make things worse on the spouses and\/or the children to stay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ed: Originally published on\u00a0Facebook.] What is &#8220;abandonment&#8221;? Some people are afraid to leave the marital home because they don&#8217;t want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20,21],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}