Living Trust: Avoiding Arizona’s Probate Process
Living Trust: Avoiding Arizona’s Probate Process We have written elsewhere about Arizona’s probate process. Probate is a legal process in which the court appoints a personal representative of the estate of a person who has died. That personal representative is responsible for making an inventory of all of the deceased’s assets whose ownership did […]
Common Law Marriage and Covenant Marriage
Arizona Divorce: Marriage, Common Law Marriage, and Covenant Marriage Marriage in Arizona Marriage is a contractual relationship. The laws for marriage vary from one state to another. Arizona law, for example, prohibits marriage between certain blood relations (between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree; between half- or whole-blood brothers and […]
Spousal Maintenance (Alimony) in an Arizona Divorce
Spousal Maintenance (Alimony) in an Arizona Divorce Spousal maintenance — also called “alimony” or “spousal support” — is money paid by one spouse to the other for support during and/or after a divorce or legal separation. When spouses separate, one person may be unable to pay for regular living expenses, in which case a […]
Establishing Child Support in Arizona
Establishing Child Support in Arizona Arizona law states that “every person has the duty to provide all reasonable support for that person’s natural and adopted minor, unemancipated children” (ARS 25-501). Parents who are divorced or who have never been married still have an obligation to support their biological or adopted children. In 2005 […]