BRIEF SUMMARY OF TIMELINE FOR SUPPORT
Although spousal support was not officially ordered until September 21, 2012, a bifurcated marital dissolution had been previously granted on November 9, 2011 and I paid voluntary spousal support and 100% of community obligations since our official separation in 2008.
This voluntary support terminated when Petitioner failed to hold up her end of an agreement we had regarding divorce upon mutual agreement in Moscow, where we were married. The interim between voluntary and ordered payments was 5 months, so in essence, I have been paying spousal support since 2008. We were married a total of 16 years before Petitioner insisted that I move out of our bedroom.
I reiterate these dates to summarize for this court the actual time-line of events outside of what the official calendar shows. I emphasize that timing in this case is of essence since each year Petitioner fails to exercise substantial efforts towards self-sufficiency, the more chance she has of making herself “permanently disabled”[1] as she stated at hearing on September 7, 2012.
Left to her own inertia, Petitioner will continue applying the least amount of effort and later argue that her future advanced age makes her unable to compete in the marketplace or to seek remarriage and rely on status quo.