Arizona has a form of alimony called spousal maintenance. Spousal maintenance is the amount of money one party pays another to support them during and after a divorce. If a wife/mother has been a homemaker for 30 years, a judge likely finds she is eligible for spousal maintenance. An award of spousal maintenance depends on several factors.
Those factors are outlined in Arizona Revised Statute, 25-319. A judge will consider (among other things) financial hardship, income, property, resources, education, work experience, duration of marriage, whether one spouse has contributed to the career of another, and whether one spouse has raised the children.
The best family lawyer in Phoenix can explain whether you qualify for spousal maintenance and, if so, what a reasonable amount of maintenance would be.
