Providing the answers to your legal questions Are you able to offer free legal advice?
Yes we do, we believe its important that everyone has access to professional legal advice, that’s why our firm regularly hosts free legal advice clinics at our offices and at venues within the local community.
Our clinics provide the opportunity for you to talk with our legal professionals and get the answers to your questions. Whether you need advice on Family Law, Conveyancing, Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, or Wills and Probate our team of experts are available to help you.
All our legal clinics are very informal so there is no need to make an appointment. However if you wish to discuss a particular area of law then we would ask you to contact us beforehand so we can ensure we have a representative from that department available at the session.
Our next free legal advice clinics will be held at:
What is spousal maintenance and how long does it last?
Spousal maintenance is money paid regularly, usually monthly, by one spouse to their former spouse following a divorce. It can be ordered for example in situations whereby one partner cannot support themselves financially, for example, one spouse has stopped working in order to raise the children. Maintenance can be ordered by the court for relatively short periods of time in order to enable the recipient to become more financially independent. This is known as ‘term maintenance’.
Maintenance can also be ordered for longer periods and can be terminated if the parties become entitled to draw income from their pensions. The level of maintenance can be varied upward or downward by an application to the Court.
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The Courts always have a duty to consider a ‘clean break’ between spouses on a divorce and where possible, the Court will normally put this in place rather than ordering maintenance over a length of time. This can involve paying a lump-sum instead of maintenance, known as ‘capitalising maintenance’.
Unless there is an agreed end-date spousal maintenance will often be paid until the recipient remarries, enters a civil partnership or if either the recipient or payer dies. It can also end if the recipi- ent lives with a new partner for 6 months, if the parties agree to this being an end-date.
Please contact our Family Law team for further information.
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