Spousal support (also known as alimony) is a court ordered payment from one spouse or domestic partner to help cover the other's monthly expenses. Length of marriage, age, health, and other factors are considered.Use online calculators or consult an attorney to estimate potential amounts. All alimony in California is based on one spouse's need for support and the other spouse's ability to pay. Agreements must be fair and reasonable. Sacramento spousal support lawyer Jin Kim helps clients receive fair spousal support orders for an affordable hourly rate. Our free California spousal support calculator helps you easily estimate your potential spousal support payments. Quick, easy, and accurate. Hughes Law Group are local Sacramento divorce attorneys with over thirty years of experience in spousal support and alimony issues . The marital standard of living goes a long way to determining the amount of spousal support that the higher-earning party may be ordered to pay.