Do Unofficial Agreements to Help Your Ex-Spouse After Divorce Always Lead to Trouble?
If you admit, publicly and privately, that even though you are divorced, your ex-spouse is still family, you are just being realistic. If you and your ex-spouse have minor children together, then you have to make an effort to keep the peace, even if it means only talking to each other through your lawyers. Your efforts to hurt your ex-spouse, financially or otherwise, only hurt your children. Of course, healthy boundaries are an important part of any co-parenting relationship. It’s fine to attend Thanksgiving dinner with your ex-spouse and your former in-laws if you don’t have any relatives in town or to transport your ex’s stuff in your pickup truck from her old apartment to her new apartment, but being part of every event and every decision only leads to trouble. Some people offer to help their ex-spouses out of a sense of familial duty and human decency, but others do it because they are addicted to the drama. If you and your ex are going above and beyond to cooperate, beyond what your parenting plan requires, and it is only making things worse, contact a Boca Raton divorce lawyer.
When Paying Your Ex-Spouse Piles of Court-Ordered Alimony Isn’t the Worst-Case Scenario
A couple divorced in 2011, and the husband moved to Orlando for work, while the wife, who was not in the workforce, stayed in the marital home on Merritt Island with the couple’s three children. The husband paid alimony and child support pursuant to the couple’s marital settlement agreement and parenting plan, but the children’s commute was difficult, and the wife decided to move to Orlando. Moving the whole family to Orlando did not solve the couple’s problems; in fact, it caused tension between the wife and other relatives on her side of the family. About a year after moving to Orlando, the wife moved back to Merritt Island and back into the former marital home.
The wife signed a power of attorney granting the husband the authority to sell her house in Orlando. When the house sold, the wife paid the husband $130,000 from the proceeds of the sale. The court ordered her to put an additional $20,000 in an escrow account while other financial disputes between the former spouses were pending. The other disputes turned out not to be easy to resolve. The husband argued that the $20,000 was meant to go to him to reimburse him for expenses he had incurred while selling the wife’s Orlando house. The wife claimed that she was entitled to the $20,000, because it represented overdue alimony payments that the wife still owed her.
Contact Schwartz | White About Disentangling Financial Issues That Arose Between You and Your EX-Spouse After Your Divorce
A South Florida family law attorney can provide legal representation in disputes with your ex-spouse that do not arise directly from your divorce judgment or parenting plan. Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.
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