James Sexton

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · Attorney James Sexton on How to Get Divorced Without Going Broke · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

One of the factors that Alimonia is designed to address is detrimental reliance, meaning in reliance.

On you being the primary wage earner and us staying together, I made certain choices financially about my career, my profession, what I was going to be doing.

And I've diminished my lifetime earning capacity.

So if, for example, as many people do, when you have children in your 30s or 40s, there's going to be a chunk of time, even if it's just when the kids are before school age, where you might not be working.

Working as much, right?

You're going to be out of the workforce for a period of time.

That's going to diminish your lifetime earning capacity.

Because the people that didn't step out of the race for that nine months or a year or three years or five years, they're getting a head start.

So the people you went to business school with, they're going to have a little bit of a head start.

So that's what you're arguing when you're arguing spousal maintenance.

And sometimes there, you know, there's a lot of other factors like future inheritances that people might be getting, um, what they're

Their ability to earn is because the idea of what we call non-durational alimony or what used to be called lifetime alimony, it really fell out of vogue quite some time ago.

Now it's the idea is really what's called rehabilitative, which is essentially to get a person back to where they would have been or as close as possible.

So the idea, for example, is if a person was an attorney and then they, you know, marry someone who's very you know wealthy.

And they say, okay, I'm gonna step off of partner track and I'm gonna be home with kids that we had or adopt during the marriage.

Okay, that's you're gonna step back a bit and you're gonna be behind other people.

So you still have a law license, you still can get a job, but now you know, maybe you need a few extra years because the kids are school age, or you don't have, you know, or you've lost some opportunities when it came to the kind of placement you would have.

That's what alimony is designed to do, is to sort of diminish the

negative impacts of detrimental reliance that you made in reliance on the promise of the marriage.

Cause what is marriage other than a promise?

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