Hi all,
I am a student and I have been living in California for 3 years. My wife and I have been married for 6 years and in separation for the recent 2 years and she graduated from school last year and she’s been working in NYC for 8 months. We don’t have properties and kids and she wanted to divorce and we’ve decided to go with an uncontested divorce.
As I don’t have money to hire a lawyer (even after the split). We preliminarily planned to do a self-service.
I am thinking of waive all the claims on supports and hopefully she is willing to do the same and then we will have a smooth divorce and happy ending. And I am a gentlemen anyway. Before our separation two years ago, I supported the family.
Just to get a rough idea, what will our palimony claim be for both temporary and permanent palimony? Currently I earn K per year as I am still a student and she earns, roughly, K per year, as a fresh graduate. This is the current situation. Of course things will change after years later.
I will use the estimate of alimony to estimate how much chance we will have a smooth and happy divorce, even she’s already proposed and agreed on a uncontested divorce. It will not change my decision of being generous and not claiming anything. But I need to have a rough feeling if she’s going to be happy and comfortable with not to claim on me…

Thanks!
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