{"id":2672,"date":"2016-02-02T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:23:56","slug":"alimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Alimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tax-refund.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2673\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tax-refund-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"tax refund\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alimony that is received by a taxpayer must be included as income on that person&#8217;s tax return.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who pays alimony can deduct the alimony payments on the first page of their federal tax return.<\/p>\n<p>However, in order to be deductible, a few rules must be met:<\/p>\n<p>1.The alimony must be paid by cash, check, or money order.<\/p>\n<p>2.The divorce decree between the former spouses must designate the payments as alimony.\u00a0 Child support is not deductible.\u00a0 Neither are property settlement payments.<\/p>\n<p>3.The alimony payments must stop at the death of the former spouse.\u00a0 If they don&#8217;t, then the IRS will not consider the payments alimony.<\/p>\n<p>If you need help filing your tax return, you can contact us at 816-524-4949, or look us up at Hoorfarlaw.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alimony that is received by a taxpayer must be included as income on that person&#8217;s tax return. Anyone who pays alimony can deduct the alimony payments on the first page of their federal tax return. However, in order to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,267,776,725,348,693,732,139,59,131,718],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-alimony","tag-attorney","tag-down-town-lees-summit","tag-family-law","tag-law-office-of-camron-hoorfar","tag-lawyer","tag-loch","tag-tax-tips","tag-tax-time","tag-taxes","tag-we-can-help"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}