Separate Maintenance: An action filed for support between two spouses not living together even though the spouse's are not actively seeking a divorce.
Separate maintenance: Money paid by a married person for the support of a spouse from whom one is separated.
separate maintenance - Allowance ordered to be paid by one spouse to the other for support while the spouses are living apart but not divorced.
separate maintenance Money paid by one spouse for the support of the other, when the two are not living together as husband and wife.
SEPARATE MAINTENANCE, contracts. An allowance made by a hushand to his wife for her separate support and maintenance.
Separate maintenance
Definition - Noun
: maintenance paid (as by court order) from one spouse to another during separation <entitlement to separate maintenance does not extend to the division of marital assets Kennedy v. Kennedy, 662 So.
The separated parties will ordinarily be bound by the provisions of an agreement respecting the amount to be paid for separate maintenance and the adjustment of their property rights.
Compensation for services, including fees, commissions and similar items; (2) Gross income derived from business; (3) Gains derived from dealing in property; (4) Interest; (5) Rents; (6) Royalties; (7) Dividends; (8) Alimony and separate maintenance ...
DOMESTIC RELATIONS ACTION -- A case involving divorce, separate maintenance, annulment of marriage, affirmation of marriage, paternity, child or spousal support, custody of a minor, parenting time, or grandparenting time. See MCR 3.201.
 See also: Service, Maintenance, Law, Property, Contract
  
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