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If you're getting a divorce in Georgia, you may wonder how to get alimony. Here, Atlanta divorce attorney Jeff Cleghorn explains the ins and outs of Georgia alimony, including who gets it and how. Hear about why this court remedy isn't as popular as it used to be, as well as what his team of Atlanta divorce lawyers can do to get you alimony in Georgia.

The attorneys at Kitchens New Cleghorn, LLC handle cases throughout Georgia, with offices in Atlanta, Alpharetta, Lawrenceville, Marietta and Athens.

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Georgia law allows for a spouse, an ex-spouse, to receive alimony payments from her or his former spouse under certain circumstance. Alimony is not as popular a remedy of courts as it was 30 or 40 years ago, given that increasingly both the moms and the dads are oftentimes in the workforce already working to provide financially for the family. However, in events and circumstances where an economically dependent spouse
needs the financial support for a period of time from their former spouse in the form of alimony, Georgia courts do have the authority under some circumstances to award alimony.

Factors that are most commonly looked at by courts are what is the financial need of the dependent spouse or ex-spouse, what is the financial capacity of the other ex-spouse to provide some amount of alimony for some amount of time and what has been the standard of living that the parties enjoyed during the marriage, particularly during the latter part of the marriage. And there are some additional factors as well but those are the larger ones.

Alimony is one of the most sensitive and controversial topics in family law because it is always the case in my experience that the payor of alimony does not want to pay and certainly does not want to pay for as long or pay as much as the hoped for recipient of the alimony would like. So it is a difficult area of family law but one that

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