The whole spectrum of alimony law. This legal advisor is your practical source of information on all alimony issues as a comprehensive encyclopedia. All problems relevant in practice are presented in an understandable way in more than 450 keywords. Among other things, the following are dealt with in detail: spousal maintenance, child maintenance, temporal limitation of spousal maintenance, community of property, separate life maintenance, claims of the unmarried mother, advance maintenance, maintenance arrears, assets and their realization, forfeiture of the maintenance claim, old-age provision, unemployment, illness, obligations to work, and maintenance claim of parents against their children. To the 12th edition: In the new edition, the work is completely revised. The current case law on postmarital spousal maintenance is taken into account, as is the case law on the temporal limitation of spousal maintenance.