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Alimony and postseparation support: two instruments, real fault rules
Postseparation support is the interim instrument; alimony is the longer one. Both turn on the dependent/supporting spouse definitions — and illicit sexual behavior before separation carries statutory consequences: by the dependent spouse it bars alimony, by the supporting spouse it mandates an award, by both it returns to the court's discretion.
The honesty note
North Carolina has no alimony formula, schedule, or duration table — amount and duration are judgment calls on the statutory factors, and nothing here predicts them.
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