Alimony
Categories: Tax, Trusts and Estates
You said "I do." You stamped on the glass. Then, he told you to take the garbage out one time too many, and that was it. You realized that your high school sweetheart connection really revolved around your shared love of football games, and not around the witty repartee of dinner conversation you'd hoped for as you went through law school, and he went through nail salon certification.
So now, you owe him an analogous lifestyle of what he left, and you pay him alimony as a financial representation of that lifestyle. You owe it until he marries someone else, so for free, you include in the monthly check a complimentary subscription to JDate.
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should they happen. partnerships carry a lot of financial danger if one partner
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both parties pay for it. the innocent partner pays just as much in the form of
whatever financial damages befall the partnership as the evil one, and
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like a general partnership with limited partners having no personal liability so [ liability structures defined]
for all the good that a partnership can have it can get bad and ugly so you got
to enter partnerships carefully. spend lots of dough on lawyers before you set
it up so you don't have to after. [money exchanged for partnership contract ]