Domestic Relations – Maintenance; Bonuses 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, February 8, 2010
By admin
Tags: Domestic Relations

Where the District Court granted permanent maintenance and set the amount of current and future maintenance payments at a level that allows wife to meet her reasonable monthly expenses and even provides a surplus; and before consideration of husband’s bonuses, his current maintenance payments will result in his falling short of his current reasonable monthly expenses and future maintenance payments will result in him being able to meet his reasonable monthly expenses, although his surplus will still be less than wife’s; we conclude that the District Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding wife one-third, rather than one-half, of the net amount of husband’s annual bonuses.

Affirmed.