Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

Re: remarriage

If your Ex is paying alimony or spousal support; and you are living in a home, purchased with and still partly owned by your Ex, NOTICE to your EX-Husband should be made on or about the date your Ex's obligations to pay spousal support and household maintenance, or carrying charges, etc., cease. Or, Notice should be made ASAP after the effective date of your "status" change.

However, if your EX is only paying Child Support, and there is no pre-existing Court Order directing or requiring NOtice, Your marriage and name change, without more, should be of absolutely no importance to your EX Husband.

Good luck,

Phroska L. McAlister,ESQ

Re: remarriage

Remarriage usually does not relate to child support so there is no obligation to report this to the ex-husband. However, other portions of a seperation agreement or judgment may require this information to be communicated. If so, you should notify promptly after remarriage. Maybe not the day of remarriage, but soon after the wedding and any honeymoon have occurred.

If alimony is being paid then the information should be communicated immediately after marriage. In particular, it should be communicated before money is paid for alimony after the remarriage since alimony stops upon remarriage.