{"id":510,"date":"2016-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/12\/property-division-in-lieu-of-alimony\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"property-division-in-lieu-of-alimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/property-division-in-lieu-of-alimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Division in Lieu of Alimony"},"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>Yesterday we talked about the interplay of alimony and property division. Often it can make sense to pay more alimony in exchange for a more favorable property division. Note the reverse can be true, in a sense &#8211; the court can adjust its property division to make up for the fact it may not be able to award alimony.<\/p>\n<p>Alimony is typically not available to a spouse who is guilty of a fault issue &#8211; for example, adultery. In other words, if a spouse has an extramarital affair, and\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">that is the cause of the divorce, then that spouse cannot be awarded alimony in most cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Notwithstanding what the parties could get at trial, keep in mind that divorcing spouses could almost always agree to do whatever they want. So even where a spouse cannot get alimony at trial, the other spouse may be better off agreeing to pay alimony anyway. Every case is different, but the moral of the story is this &#8211; when considering property issues, don&#8217;t forget about alimony as an option, and think about making alimony and property division work together to achieve a good outcome for both parties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ed: Originally published on\u00a0Facebook.] Yesterday we talked about the interplay of alimony and property division. Often it can make sense&#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":[9,20,21,16,17],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}