subject: Are Compensation Or Alimony Better Substitutes? [print this page] Compensation and alimony cannot fill the gaps which are created by loss or damage occurred due to mishaps to an individual in the course of life. These are just few small steps taken to provide a little relief to the individual so that awful happening can be healed up to some extent.
Compensation and alimony are some of the legal or judicial procedures which are offered to the victim to provide monetary or financial assistances so one can live the life to certain extent whereby one get little respite from the catastrophes.
There are many occasions where an individual met with certain mishaps not due to his negligence but due to others faults and mistakes, which deprive him of living the normal life. Individual cannot think of earning due to his inability or lack of completeness. It may be that one lost his vital part while working which deprives him of living normal life or other case one have partial or full loss of body part or is lost the life due to mishap. Such cases reflect that individual cannot live a normal life and must be provided with little assistance to get some financial reliefs. In the cases of divorce, one is required to ask for the maintenance payment on the regular bases to lead a normal life.
Compensation cases one is liable to take legal helps to get the appropriate compensation to lead a normal family life. The legal proceeding judges the kind of injury and the extent of injury and attorneys demands the suitable compensation from the owner. This compensation is provided to an individual as a substitute to the loss which has shattered one life.
Alimony reduction is also a kind of relief provided to an individual in the cases of eventuality. Basically alimony reduction is given to those people who had been paying huge maintenance money and mean while one losses the source of income and unable to pay the maintenance money.