Taxes are already complicated enough without adding divorce or dependents to the mix. But if you’ve been making or receiving alimony or child support payments, you need to know how those payments ...

Editor’s Note: The 2017 Tax Act eliminated the deduction for alimony for tax years beginning after 2018, and provides that alimony and separate maintenance payments are no longer included in income of ...

Q. My ex is taking me back to court to change the support order – he wants more alimony now that our teenage kids have moved in with me full time and the court ended his child support. He didn’t work ...

For restaurant owners, divorce brings a unique set of challenges—especially when it comes to financial obligations like alimony and child support. Unlike salaried employees with predictable income, ...

Courtney Johnston led the CNET Money team and worked closely with the consumer insights data team. Before CNET, she worked as a graduate writing instructor at the University of Indianapolis and ...

The Tax Court held that payments a taxpayer made to a former spouse were child support and not spousal support, since the divorce instrument under which they were made contained a child-related ...

An interlocutory order denying pendente lite alimony and child support is not appealable as an order for the payment of money, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The high court heard arguments ...