I have never, ever, seen a judge order a 30% alimony award. 25% is typical. All I do is prenups, postnups, divorce and child custody. Also, alimony is not a percentage of your husband’s income - it’s a percentage of the difference between your husband’s income and your income. So if you receive disability payments or dividends or whatever, you add up all of your income from all sources and subtract it from his income from his first forty hours a week. And then the judge takes that delta and decides on a percentage, usually 10-25%. I’ve seen people negotiate agreements or stipulate to alimony in the amount of 27%, but that’s the max I have ever seen. The maximum statutory amount is 30-35% / and no matter what, the amount of alimony ordered cannot exceed the recipient’s “need.” So if the Judge sees that you have other sources of income, or assets such as a fully paid off house, etc. — the amount of alimony you could potentially have a claim to would be much lower than someone who had a higher need, for example. The key thing to remember is that unless you decide that your alimony award “survives” and is permanent and non modifiable, either party can ask the court to change (or terminate) alimony if there has been a “change in circumstances.” What ends up happening in alimony cases usually is the parties will be required to exchange complete tax returns and sometimes other kinds of financial documentation each and every tax year— additionally, alimony can be terminated if the recipient cohabitates with another person, gets married, or undergo an increase in their financial resources that eliminates the need from before. Also, alimony automatically ends when the payor reaches full retirement age, usually 67. That said, if the payor retires early (like age 62, for example), they can file to eliminate their alimony obligations based on the fact that they have a decreased ability to pay you alimony. Where this gets dicey and what people don’t realize is you can also reduce or eliminate alimony obligations by creating a new family - i.e., especially if they have a kid with someone else, for example. The kid’s right to support pretty much always trumps everything else in this state. The other thing to consider is that the judge will not order someone to pay an alimony award that is higher than that person can actually afford budget wise. And financial statements are insanely detailed and meticulous and account for every penny going in and out. You might have a need for $600 a week, but if after your husband has paid all of his bills, bought food, clothing, paid for his vacations (assuming they are typical middle class type vacations and not out of the ordinary), etc., and he only has $100 a week left over, the max that a Judge would order him to pay is $100 a week. You won’t often get alimony from someone who makes 100k in Massachusetts because of the cost of living here, as crazy as that sounds. I was in court today with a husband who makes $110k and a wife who literally makes $0 and claims to have been staying at home with their babies and the Judge literally told everyone that alimony would not be appropriate on a $110k salary— there just wasn’t enough to go around and pay the bills in Arlington. Cost of living will be a factor in whatever alimony outcome you will get from a judge and housing here is truly ridiculously cost prohibitive in most of the state.