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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily Alimony is not child support, which is another ongoing financial obligation often established in divorce. Child support is where one parent is required to contribute to the support of his or her children through the agency of the child's other parent or guardian.
Alimony is treated very differently to child support in the United States with respect to taxation. Alimony is treated as income to the receiving spouse, and deducted from the income of the paying spouse. Child support is not a payment that affects US taxes as it is viewed as a payment that a parent is making for the support of their own offspring.
If a party fails to pay alimony, there are not generally any special legal options available to the party that is owed money. In many jurisdictions, people whose child support obligations go into arrears can have licenses seized, in a few states they can even be imprisoned. Someone trying to recover back alimony can only use the collection procedures that are available to all other creditors (for example, (s)he could report the back alimony to a collection agency).
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