BOSTON — A husband’s challenge to a hike in his weekly alimony payment by $1,000 has teed up for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the question of whether a judge can consider an asserted need ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has found that a Probate & Family Court judge erred in issuing a divorce judgment that deviated from the presumptive alimony durational limit by ordering the husband to ...

BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday signed into law new limits on alimony in Massachusetts, sharply curbing lifetime alimony payments in divorce cases and making a series of other changes to a ...

After working 30 years as an engineer and 20 years as a teacher, an 84-year-old man asked a Massachusetts Family Court judge to modify his alimony so he could retire. The judge told him that he had to ...

A bill introduced in the New Jersey Assembly on March 7, A-3909/S-2750, would drastically alter the alimony statute. Among the changes are a formula that ties the length of the marriage to the length ...