Terri Russell

KOLOTV.com

Loss of job, furloughs, even pay cuts, all are possibilities during this down economy. What you may not realize, those dramatic changes in income may prompt a divorced man or woman to go back to court and get a change in alimony payments set down in the divorce decree. Even here in Nevada a divorced couple can find itself back in court after several years looking at ways to lower or even increase those alimony payments.

“We look at the length of the marriage, to determine how long the alimony should be. And if there is still alimony to be paid, we look at the financial ability of the paying person to pay more alimony and the financial need, if she’s has more need she has a basis to modify, which the court will modify depending upon a combination of those three factors,” says Jonathan King. King has been a focusing on family law for the last 30-years here locally. He says every three years a divorced couple can, if they choose, review and modify child support–revisiting alimony can happen at anytime. “Alimony is always fair game,” says King, that is if its part of the original divorce decree.

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