Spousal Support Services
by Amber M. Serwat
The purpose of spousal support is to provide financial assistance to the lower earning individual in a divorce in order to allow him/her to maintain a standard of living that they have become accustom too during the relationship they had while they were married. In Minnesota, there are three types of spousal support – temporary, short term and long term.
Generally the following factors are taken into account when it comes to the determination of spousal support
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