Lower Sugarloaf Key, FL Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

In all honesty, some date while married. It is not illegal to have partners or lovers while dating. However, although legal, religious, moral and ethical values differ vastly. You should be divorced though before you remarry. Bigamy is not legal. If you have been separated for years, your new partner might still have reservations if you are legally in another relationship. You should reassess where you are going and what you want to be legally tied to. Merry Christmas.

There is no law that provides that an award of child support bars the recipient from being awarded alimony. In theory, while the factors that influence an award of child support and an award of alimony do somewhat overlap, alimony and child support are largely considered independent of one another. Utah generally determines child support based upon a statutory mathematical formula (See Utah Code Title 78B, Chapter 12). Alimony is not based upon a statutory mathematical formula; instead, alimony is based upon demonstrating need for alimony and then demonstrating that your spouse has the ability to pay alimony. So one of the ways that child support affects alimony award is fairly clear: if the spouse has to pay child support to the other spouse, that leaves less money available to be paid in the form of alimony. But there is no law that provides that an award of child support bars the recipient from being awarded alimony.