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mediated agreement after nine year marriage. ( 1982), alimony $1800/ month, based on the agreement that it would cease when she got remarried or was cohabiting. After 29 years she is single. Although the agreement did not specify Permanent Alimony,am I obligated to keep paying after age 65. My attorney informed me that at social security the payments stop. Is this true?
Optional Information: State/Country: Already Tried: I tried to renegiotate the agreement in 1998 and Judge Fleet in Broward county decided against me erroneously stating that I was not supporting my children even tough the children were living with me after they left their mothers home. I was made out to be a dead -beat dad although the issue was alimony and I have never renegade on my child support
Thank you for your question. Retirement does not automatically terminate or reduce your Alimony obligation unless the divorce decree specifically provides for that. If not, in order to have your obligation terminated or reduced, you would have to file a motion to modify with the court. The court may be likely to terminate or reduce alimony if the retirement is made in good faith (that is, it was not contrived for the sole purpose of terminating alimony). The court will also consider the incomes of the parties. A nine year marriage is generally considered short term for purposes of awarding alimony, and I find it extremely curious that you are still being obligated to pay after 29 years. Regardless of your retiring, I think a court would certainly award you a termination after all this time and such a short term marriage, particularly since the decree doesn't order that alimony is permanent.
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