Alimony: Is Padding Expenses Justified? Or Risky?

December 28, 2018

A Court May Decline to Accept Claimed Expenses that Are Overstated and Unsupported. This is an appeal from a district court’s award of alimony in the aftermath of a contentious divorce. Wife contends that the court abused its discretion when it declined to accept her claimed expenses at face value--even when the claimed expenses by Wife had no relation to historical needs, exceeded the Husband's take-home pay, were overstated, and Wife failed to provide credible evidence regarding finances and expenses--as opposed to Husband's testimony which was credible, detailed and specific.

Hartvigsen v. Hartvigsen, 2018 UT App 238 (Filed December 28, 2018)

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September 27, 2018
Court finds that emailing a link to Google Drive may be equivalent to emailing the files

A mother's attorney emailed the father a Google Drive link to the files, rather than the files themselves.  Father objected. […]

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February 14, 2019
Distance does not always mean statutory minimum parent time. Court could accommodate with additional weekends, summer time and holidays.

Nebeker v. Orton, 2019 UT App 23 (Filed February 14, 2019). In this case, the father and mother lived approximately […]

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July 12, 2018
When a parent can show all the factors for the "optional" 40% parent time schedule, is a court required to order it? No, it still has discretion.

Lay v. Lay, 2018 UT Ct App 137 (July 12, 2018) Utah statutes have a “minimum” parent time (“visitation”) schedule […]

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