Spousal Maintenance

Phoenix Spousal Maintenance Lawyers

Alimony is called spousal maintenance in Arizona. It may be awarded to one of the parties in a temporary or final decree when appropriate. Some of the factors considered by the Judge are:

• Whether the marriage was of duration, and one party is of an age that may preclude the possibility of gaining employment to meet his or her needs.
• Whether a party lacks sufficient property to meet their reasonable needs.
• Whether a party is unable to be self-sufficient through appropriate employment.
• Whether on party helped put the other through school.

Either a husband or a wife can seek alimony payments. Temporary alimony payments are also available to help a nonworking spouse pay legal expenses and maintain his or her standard of living while the divorce is in process.

At DeShon Pullen & Associates, we help you analyze whether it is appropriate to seek spousal maintenance. Our attorneys appreciate the economic and emotional value of reaching a negotiated alimony settlement when it is appropriate. However, we are prepared to use our trial experience to pursue your alimony case in court when there are no reasonable possibilities of settlement. We will help you create an aggressive, winning strategy that draws on our lawyers years of family law experience. Contact us for all your family law needs.

Our goal is to help you obtain the result you want quickly, efficiently, and economically.