I've been told that Spousal Support (SS) has 2 main components made up of Financial and Compensatory. There is a third component but I don't recall what its called and it is usually not applicable. I'm coming from a 20 year marriage and my x's age and years of service is greater than 65. I noticed that both of these metrics put us in a special category but I'm not really sure what the real impact of that is. Perhaps too quickly and not fully understanding the implications I agreed to an interim agreement with spousal support at the mid point (SS with child support formula) only because it was the mid point which seemed fair at the time.
In mediation we have glossed over the topic of Financial vs Compensatory. The solution however remains one solution. Although I'm in the military (which seems to be the goto example for justifying compensatory), we moved relatively little and my x only had to quit 1 job because of a move and that was very early on in our relationship. My counter point to the compensatory argument is my x took several highly specialized (expensive) training programs in different fields targeted at getting a job which never materialized, and x quit 2 very promising careers because they weren't "the right fit". Am I really on the hook for a compensatory component of this SS? If this is a financial SS how would we determine an end date?
Further, Shared Custody Child Support is in play and since full table over compensates the lower income parent, can this be used to justify zero SS?
In mediation we have glossed over the topic of Financial vs Compensatory. The solution however remains one solution. Although I'm in the military (which seems to be the goto example for justifying compensatory), we moved relatively little and my x only had to quit 1 job because of a move and that was very early on in our relationship. My counter point to the compensatory argument is my x took several highly specialized (expensive) training programs in different fields targeted at getting a job which never materialized, and x quit 2 very promising careers because they weren't "the right fit". Am I really on the hook for a compensatory component of this SS? If this is a financial SS how would we determine an end date?
Further, Shared Custody Child Support is in play and since full table over compensates the lower income parent, can this be used to justify zero SS?
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