Yes, you can. The rules for Fannie Mae state that if there is 12 months of payment history of the spousal support AND there is proof in the decree stating three more years of continuing spousal support from the date of closing, the spousal support may be used as income to qualify.
There can be exceptions…
A few weeks ago we wrote about the rape epidemic in the Congo. Unfortunately, a culture of tolerating and even encouraging gang rapes appears in other parts of Africa as well. This week the BBC reports about a South African man who sought out a woman he had raped as a teenager in his home village:
Dumisani Rebombo
…
This may well be apocryphal, but yeah, I don’t really think this is the technique recommended by those self-help mavens on how to tell your kids about your divorce….
Maybe the best takeaway is from a comment on digg.com:
thebasshacker
8 hr 50 min ago
First rule of social networking:
…
We recently ran a story about one unintended consequence of cheating – having twins, each with a different father. We now learn that there is apparently no statute of limitations on the rage of the spouse being cheated on. The Everett Herald reports that a 78-year old woman took a lead pipe to her husband over…
This is part 5 of 8 of our series on what forms you need to file for temporary orders in your divorce case. Last week we went over the Sealed Financial Source Documents. Next week we’ll go over the Proposed Order of Child Support.
If you have children,…
Enterprising young women are, we hear, fleecing desperate bachelors in rural China. First the vixen ask for an exorbitant “bride price,” next get quickly hitched, and then get out of Dodge even quicker.
The Wall Street Journal reports that decades of population control policies have led to an amazing surplus of 32 million “extra” young men. Whole villages are simply…
This pop quiz involves a 2002 law which imposes a statute of limitations of two years for challenging another man’s claim of paternity. The main purpose of the law is to encourage stability for children by ensuring that the question of paternity for children is generally decided within two years of the child’s birth.…
This is part 5 of 8 of our series on what forms you need to file for temporary orders in your divorce case. Last week we went over the Financial Declaration. Next week we’ll go over the Proposed Temporary Parenting Plan (only if you have kids, of course).
The Sealed Financial Source Documents Cover Sheet lists…
This is part 4 of 8 of our series on what forms you need to file for temporary orders in your divorce case. Last week we went over the Motion and Declaration. Next week we’ll go over the sealed financial source documents form (and accompanying documents).
A Financial Declaration is a sworn document in which…
As Dorothy, The Lion, The Scarecrow, and The Tin Man were fearful of their fate on their path to the Emerald City, there are some major concerns regarding appraisals and refinancing that are up for consideration when moving through a divorce process in 2009. Are they just fears of the imagination as in the Wizard of Oz movie or real…
