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Domestic Relations - Spousal Support Increase - Husband’s Income - Unemployed Wife (access required)

By Deborah Elkins
Published: November 9, 2009

A mere increase in husband’s income does not justify increasing wife’s spousal support beyond the standard of living during the marriage, but circumstances that include husband’s 70 percent increase income and wife’s continued inability to work due to her fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome justify an increase from $2,500 to $3,250 per month, a Loudoun ...
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