"Lately, whenever young mothers ask me about staying home with my children, I admit that I’m not sure it was worth the ...

The Law Office of Ryan Besinque ( highlighted how New York City’s elevated housing, childcare, healthcare, and transportation ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

As 2019 begins, the big news in divorce is implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 ("Trump Tax”) and its key provision that changes the way alimony has been taxed for decades. Under old ...

Alimony dates back centuries. The original idea was that once married, a man is responsible for a woman till death. But that notion has shifted in recent decades, as more women have jobs and their own ...

I recently wrote Stay-at-Home-Mom Facing Divorce? Don't Expect Alimony, about the recent trend of states revisiting their alimony laws. In many states lifetime alimony is being challenged, and how the ...

Alimony has two important tax statuses. If you finalized your divorce before Jan. 1, 2019, the person who collects alimony pays taxes on this money. This means that the person who pays alimony can ...

Discrepancies between the amount of alimony deducted by payers and reported as income by its recipients increased by 38% in six years, to $3.2 billion for tax year 2016, the Treasury Inspector General ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer economics subject matter expert, ...