Taxes are already complicated enough without adding divorce or dependents to the mix. But if you’ve been making or receiving alimony or child support payments, you need to know how those payments ...

Editor’s Note: The tax treatment of alimony was fundamentally altered by the 2017 tax reform legislation. For tax years beginning after 2018, alimony payments are not deductible by the payor spouse ...

Editor’s Note: The 2017 Tax Act eliminated the deduction for alimony for tax years beginning after 2018, and provides that alimony and separate maintenance payments are no longer included in income of ...

In a ruling against the IRS, the Tax Court underscored that while alimony must be made under a divorce or separation instrument to be deductible, the payer doesn’t have to be legally obligated to make ...

Courtney Johnston led the CNET Money team and worked closely with the consumer insights data team. Before CNET, she worked as a graduate writing instructor at the University of Indianapolis and ...