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Family Law (Separation, Divorce, Dissolution, and Annulment (Maintenance…

- - - - financial resources of both parties
      - contribution of each party to the marriage
      - age and health of both parties
      - time needed to obtain education/training to find employment
      - duration of marriage
      - ability of obligor to meet needs while paying support
      - standard of living established during the marriage
  - - - experts
    - - Equitable division of all property: everything on table for equitable division, no matter who owns it.
      - Equitable division of all marital property: equitable division of marital prop. each retains separate prop.
      - Community property: marital prop 50/50
      - Factors
        
        child custody
        
        contribution as homemaker
        
        parties' needs
        
        evidence of dissipation of assets
        
        assets, debt, liabilities of parties
        
        health
        
        source of funds for acquisition of property
        
        present income
        
        standard of living enjoyed during marriage
        
        Duration of marriage
        
        Age, education, earning capacity
    - - marital
      - separate
      - Mixed
  - - - so if parent A lives in TX, B moves to VT and files for divorce, but original child support order was in Texas against A = stays in TX.
  - - - Bigamy
      - Closely-related
    - - Under age (18 w/out parental consent)
      - Impotence
      - Temporary incapacity (intoxication, duress, fraud)
      - Mental Incompetence
- - - - Interaction and interrelationship of child with parents and others
        
        parent's ability to communicate & foster relationship with other parent
      - Child's adjustment to home, school, community
      - wishes of parents and child (not under 13)
      - Mental and physical health of individual's involved
- - - - Voluntary underemployment = impute income to that party
- - - - unfavorable treatment of illegitimate children
      - unfavorable treatment of unmarried parents