What are the advantages in making spousal maintenance non-modifiable?
Spousal MaintenanceThese are payments made from one spouse to another when one spouse cannot financially meet their reasonable needs on their own. The law permits spousal maintenance (or alimony as it’s called in other states) for several reasons—to help maintain the lifestyle the parties enjoyed…Read more about Spousal Maintenance is only modifiable by agreement between you and your spouse. The effect of the agreement is to remove all JurisdictionThe authority of a Court to hear and decide a certain issue. Each court’s ability to hear cases are defined either by a Constitutional provision, or, more commonly, by an Act of Congress (for Federal courts) or the state legislature (for state courts).Read more about Jurisdiction from the courts to modify spousal maintenance at all. The advantage is that you litigate Spousal MaintenanceThese are payments made from one spouse to another when one spouse cannot financially meet their reasonable needs on their own. The law permits spousal maintenance (or alimony as it’s called in other states) for several reasons—to help maintain the lifestyle the parties enjoyed…Read more about Spousal Maintenance, which can be a heavily litigated issue, only once. Once spousal maintenance is made non-modifiable, it does not get revisited. And you are only back in Court if the paying spouse fails to pay.
