Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

Re: Alimony cessation

Your question is confusing. You say you represented yourself, but you paid your attorney $40,000 and retained a lawyer just 2 days before the hearing.

You say nothing about your income or any child support.

You say nothing about the evidence presented in court.

And you say it was a year ago.

You have to know it would have been better to appeal the judge's decision a year ago, and the time for appeal has passed, You have to know if you are in a battle with an influential ex who probably has excellent legal counsel that representing yourself is not likely to provide a good outcome, and retaining counsel just before the hearing is not the best idea. You don't say if your attorney asked for a continuance to get a better handle on the case, or if the motion was denied, presumably because you had asked for or been given continuances before.

I have to say that it is unlikely you will be able to do anything about the alimony decision. If there has been a change in your circumstances since the order to cease the alimony, you may be entitled to return to court and ask for alimony to be reinstated, but this is done rarely.

It will take a very good experienced attorney to even attempt this, and it will be expensive.

If you can show he misstated his income or other financial information and you just found this out and could not have found it out in time for the hearing, that would be another avenue to reinstate the alimony, but again expensive and difficult to prove.