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Deciding the Amount and Duration of Alimony If a spouse meets the initial eligibility requirements for alimony, the judge will then decide how much maintenance to award and how long the payments should last. Kentucky law doesn't provide a formula for calculating the amount or duration of alimony.

Family courts in Kentucky can award temporary (pendente lite) maintenance, short-term maintenance, or permanent maintenance. Temporary support orders are alimony arrangements that only last for the duration of the divorce process.

How to write up a spousal support agreement Decide on amount and how it will be paid. How much one person will pay the other each month. Write-up your agreement. Sign and make copies of the agreement. Take your agreement to get judge's signature and pay fee. Get back signed agreement and give copy to your spouse.

Kentucky Adultery Laws 2d 134 (Ky. 1973), a judge can consider adultery only when deciding how much alimony to award. The judge can't, however, prevent a guilty spouse from receiving alimony just because that spouse committed adultery.

In Kentucky, there is not a formula for determining spousal maintenance and marital fault is not considered in determining whether spousal maintenance is awarded. A judge does have discretion on determining whether marital fault should impact the amount and/or duration of the spousal maintenance.

In the state of Kentucky, it is actually quite difficult to be awarded alimony. Usually, judges do not grant spousal support except in certain extreme situations, and even then, this support is usually only for a temporary amount of time.

Division of Property: Kentucky follows the rule that each spouse is entitled to keep their separate property which was acquired by them before the marriage, but there will be an equitable distribution of their marital property.

Either spouse has the right to request alimony, though the judge must find that the requesting spouse doesn't have sufficient resources to be self-supporting and that they are unable to be self-sufficient or cannot work outside the home because they are responsible for caring for a young or incapacitated child.

Spousal Maintenance After A Set Amount Of Time The courts usually only order rehabilitative maintenance that can help someone cover their expenses when they go back to school or start looking for a job. Such payments often only last for a few years, although longer marriages may lead to longer maintenance orders.