Monroe, MI Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

There are many things that you would need to do and issues that you would need to clear up before you could stop paying alimony. First, in response to your question as to whether the UK divorce decree is enforceable in the USA, the answer is that it can be enforceable in the USA if it is registered with the court of competent jurisdiction in the United States. Second, mere belief that your ex-spouse is no longer residing in the United States (and as you mentioned, your ex-spouse must reside in the United States as a condition of receiving alimony) cannot justify a unilateral decision on your part to stop paying alimony. This means that after you have duly registered your UK divorce decree in the United States (and in Utah) with the court of competent jurisdiction, you would then need to file, depending upon the language in your decree, either a petition to modify the decree of divorce or a motion to terminate alimony based upon your ex-spouse's failure to comply with the alimony conditions of the decree of divorce. Only after the court orders that you may terminate the payment of alimony would you be legally permitted to terminate the payment of alimony. However, the court would likely grant a motion on your part to suspend payment of alimony while the case was pending, so that you do not end up paying alimony month after month after month only to have the court determined that you should not have been paying all that time, yet being unable to recover that money from your ex-spouse who would most likely have spent it.

Under Michigan law, you can file for Divorce in Michigan if you have been a continuous resident of the State for at least 180 days, and a continuous resident of the County where you would like to file for at least 10 days. You will have to legally divorce your husband before you can attempt to marry your girlfriend in a State that recognizes gay marriages.

If the children are not his biological children and he has not adopted them, then he has no legal obligation to support them. If you want child support, I suggest you go after the biological father. As for spousal support, you can request it from the court, but it is not something you are "entitled to", but rather it is at the discretion of the court. Many factors are considered when determining whether or not to grant spousal support, for how long and how much. The only factors you have identified are: length of marriage (which is very short) and income, for which you say you have none of your own. An attorney would need to know the information needed for the other factors to be able to advise you of the likelihood of receiving support. Finally, if your husband is deployed, then the divorce action will most likely be delayed until he can receive leave and return to the states. The is federal law protecting deployed soldiers and sailors. Of course, since children are not issue, it could be resolved even while he is deployed.