Reducing Spousal Support Based on Obligations

In some cases, the supported party’s separate estate (including assets allocated to him or her in the community property division), and its reasonable income potential, may be a sufficient basis to seek a reduction in, or termination of, previously awarded spousal support.

A modification of support can be sought even if your former spouse has dissipated her separate estate (that either alone or in conjunction with employment earnings would have been sufficient to provide self-support) through improvident investments and mismanagement by arguing that, as both a personal and public policy matter, the court should not reward a supported spouse for the mismanagement of her estate.

 

 

 

 

Spousal Support