22.644 Alimony

22.644 Alimony As to the issue of alimony, your verdict should read, "We, the jury, find that the defendant/plaintiff is (is not) entitled to alimony," and if you find that plaintiff/defendant or both is or are entitled to any alimony, you would continue and say what type, kind, or amount of alimony you find. If you find for a lump sum award, your verdict should state, "We award a lump sum of alimony to be paid as follows," and then set out the amount and the date of the payment or, if you find it is to be paid in installments, set out the date or times when the installments are to be made and the amount of each installment. If you find for alimony in kind (that is, an award of designated property or interest in property), your verdict should read, "We award alimony in kind as follows," and then state specifically what property or interest in property you are awarding. If you find for periodic payments of alimony, your verdict should state, "We award _______ dollars alimony," and you would fill in the amount you find, if any, and then continue, "to be paid weekly, monthly," or whatever other period you determine and for however long you may determine. If you find that any obligation for permanent alimony, however created, should or should not be terminated at any particular time in the future or suspended for any period of time in the future or terminated or continued upon any particular event in the future, you should set out in your verdict your exact findings. If the evidence authorizes it, you may provide for changes in the amount and/or the dates in the future, and such changes should specify the amount and the particular time or date or event that will cause the change to take effect. If you find payments should be made to third parties for specific goods or services, then your verdict should read, "We award alimony and require defendant/plaintiff (whichever party) to make all, or some specified part, of such-andsuch payments as they become due and owing" or upon some schedule or upon the happening of some event, whatever you may find.