Family Law

Ex-husband cuts off alimony payments to terminally ill ex-wife
In a story out of Florida, a Florida man stopped paying his alimony payments to his ex-wife who is terminally ill with ovarian cancer. According to the story, when she asked him why he stopped paying, he stated, "Aren't you dead yet...

Lump Sum or Periodic Alimony Shepherd v. Collins
In Shepherd v. Collins, S07A1658, the Supreme Court of Georgia, in a unanimous opinion written by Justce Harris Hines, reversed the judgment of the Superior Court of Laurens County, refusing to modify downward David Shepherd?s alimony payments to his former wife, Tammie Collins...

Man pays alimony to ex-wife turned man
Man paying alimony to ex-wife who underwent sex change operation Here is a bizarre story. A man and woman marry. After a bit of time, the wife starts cutting her hair shorter, gets some tattoos, injects herself with testosterone, voice gets deeper, and she now has to shave her beard...

Periodic alimony award reversed by Mississippi Court of Appeals
Alimony award reversed in Mississippi divorce The Mississippi Court of Appeals recently reversed an award of alimony in a divorce case from Neshoba County, Mississippi. In Sellers v...

One for Tax Time
From Family Law Prof Blog - Case Law Update: Tax Time and Divorce. "One often-litigated issue is the tax treatment of alimony payments. The tax code provides that alimony will be deductible to the payor and taxable to the payee...

Husband pays alimony in pennies
Judge to Husband--check or jail! An man upset with the judge's ruling awarding his ex-wife $5,000 in lump sum alimony decided to seek some revenge. He delivered the $5,000 in a barrel containing 500,000 pennies...

He Had it Coming
Stacy Schneider's Ten-step Plan for Outsmarting your Husband and Winning a Divorce

Divorce Slander
Sara Evans pays ex husband $600,000 in alimony divorce settlement.

Payments Begin in Landmark $16 Million Medicaid Class Action
Payments Begin in Landmark $16 Million Medicaid Class Action

Celebrity Chef
John Burton Race ordered to pay wife $7.2 million divorce settlement.

Social Security Class Action Launched
to Reinstate Wrongfully Terminated Payments

Final Fantasy XI
Square Enix Faces Class Action over Deceptive Fees and Payments

City Streets and Jake Aaron Strickland
$1.2 million wrongful death settlement awarded after a husband and father was killed by a convicted drunk driver.