Translation of "Spousal maintenance" in German

She added a provision for permanent spousal maintenance, which went far beyond our original agreement.

The attorney responded by submitting a motion for temporary relief to the court which called for me to pay my wife $2,100 per month in temporary spousal maintenance and also pay all her medical bills.

Why was it necessary for this judge to exercise his discretion to award the wife spousal maintenance?

The petition was asking for spousal maintenance including medical bills, payment of my wife's and my own attorney, and even an "equitable" share of my pre-marital property.

If these more accurate numbers had been plugged into the "equalizing" equation, the spousal maintenance would have been $315 rather than $500.

The story relating to divorce includes 14 months of expensive legal maneuvering starting in March 2011, the two-day trial in May 2012, the judge’s decision, a post-trial motion to amend the decision, the amended decision in December 2012, an appeal of the amended decision to the Minnesota Court of Appeals, the appellate court decision in January 2014 eliminating the $50,000 award, an appeal of that decision to the Minnesota Supreme Court which declined to accept the case, a subsequent motion to eliminate spousal maintenance in September 2014, a motion to amend that decision, another appeal to the Minnesota Court of Appeals on February 12, 2015, the unfavorable Court of Appeals decision on December 28, 2015, and another decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court on February 16, 2016 denying the appeal.

In his decision following the trial, the judge assigned me all the $325,000 in marital debt, made me pay $500 a month in permanent spousal maintenance, and ordered me to pay my wife $50,000 in a lump sum although I had few liquid assets and little credit left.

I then filed a motion to eliminate spousal maintenance on the basis of greatly increased obligor needs.

He sided with my wife, who could afford an attorney, in ruling that she was destitute and needed permanent spousal maintenance from me.

Persons entitled to maintenance who have their habitual place of residence in the Federal Republic of Germany can assert their maintenance claims which are based on a statutory foundation (in particular child and spousal maintenance) by submitting a request to the Local Court (Amtsgericht) with jurisdiction.

The trial-court judge assigned me responsibility for paying all of our $325,000 marital debt, awarded Lian $500 in permanent spousal maintenance, and also ordered me to pay Lian $50,000 from sale of my non-marital assets.

For instance, in awarding my wife $500 per month in permanent spousal maintenance, he wrote: "I fully understand that wife will be disappointed with this amount, but she needs to understand that had I not exercised my discretion to force the parties to share the economic hardship incident of their dissolution, she would have received far less in maintenance or perhaps none."

It was interesting to see that, fifteen years after the "Gender Fairness" task force report, the idea of permanent spousal maintenance had become prevalent, whereas "in 1986... permanent maintenance was awarded in less than one-half of one percent of cases sampled."

She added a "Karon waiver", to the effect that once spousal maintenance was ordered, it could never be changed.

In support of this allegation, you assert, among other things, that Judge Swenson did not fairly apportion the marital debt, ordered you to pay spousal maintenance although you did not have adequate income to support yourself, ordered you to pay your former wife $50,000 from non-marital assets, allowed your wife’s attorney far more time to present her case than you were allowed, and falsely accused you of lack of veracity.

For instance, in awarding my wife $500 per month in permanent spousal maintenance, he wrote: “I fully understand that wife will be disappointed with this amount, but she needs to understand that had I not exercised my discretion to force the parties to share the economic hardship incident of their dissolution, she would have received far less in maintenance or perhaps none.”

However, my financial position continued to worsen as I struggled to make payments on the huge amount of marital debt while also paying $500 a month in permanent spousal maintenance.

On one hand, he wrote: “ Spousal maintenance is paid out of future income and earnings.

Therefore, your statement that I offered “in support of this allegation” the judge’s ruling on spousal maintenance and on the $50,000 claim to my non-marital assets was false.

It was interesting to see that, fifteen years after the “Gender Fairness” task force report, the idea of permanent spousal maintenance had become prevalent, whereas “in 1986... permanent maintenance was awarded in less than one-half of one percent of cases sampled.”

Finding: "Spousal maintenance was awarded in only ten percent of Minnesota divorces in 1986 and permanent maintenance was awarded in less than one-half of one percent of cases sampled.

Their agenda with respect to spousal maintenance, for instance, was to encourage courts to award permanent as opposed to temporary maintenance because it was unfair to ask former housewives to retrain for another job.