Can you get your alimony reduced if your ex-wife is living with a man?

In the 2010 case of Overton v. Overton, 34 So.3d 759 the court found that even though the ex-wife had a man living with her, it was not a "supportive relationship" and alimony should not be reduced.

The Court stated:  "A supportive relationship is a relationship that 'takes the financial place of a marriage and necessarily decreases the need of the obligee.' Section 61.14(1)(b) recognizes the economic support that occurs when independent individuals choose to live together. Such support is equivalent to a marriage and requires a reduction in alimony.

Financial support alone, however, does not define a supportive relationship.  In the instant case, the trial court did not make any findings regarding the factors outlined in section 61.14(1)(b). Although the wife admitted that she lived with someone when her children were not visiting her that they drove to work together almost daily, and that they planned to marry in the future, she also testified that he did not provide her with any financial support. They did not hold themselves out as being married and had no joint assets. The parties expressed no intent to pool their assets in the future. The parties did not own or intend to purchase any property jointly and did not have any joint bank accounts. Additionally, they had separate residences.  Here, the evidence suggests that, although the wife is in a relationship which may, in time, rise to the level of a supportive relationship contemplated in 61.14, it fails to reach that point yet. Her relationship does not appear to be a 'de facto' marriage." 

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