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Hi all . As the title suggests am looking for people’s experience of spousal support and what length of support etc a court had ordered . I have 2 kids who will both be full time in school In September and the mother has good earning capacity etc although she’s decided to sit on her backside for the last few years claiming she Can’t find work and work work locally as she’s always worked In London , which I can’t imagine a court sees as a reason
... I don’t have much experience at all, but in these so called enlightened times, you would hope that courts would expect an ex partner to support themselves, if they’re able to.
Yup you’d think so ...
In my experience they focus on current earnings an not future earnings potential!
They also focus on the length of the marriage and age of the children and who the main carer is.
My only advice is to try and make an agreement without going to court as it is a lottery!
Yeah we already have an agreement but it s very open ended and doesn’t have anything in it to make her return to work .. only the standard it stops when something marries it
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