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Hello again everybody this is Jake femenino jr. of feminine 'i'll attorneys pllc the law firm for all your legal needs today and continue to talk about the divorce process we're going to talk about something called separate maintenance now don't confuse this with a separation agreement or a legal separation you can watch that video there's no such thing as those but separate maintenance does exist in the state of Michigan I'm going to tell you what it is separate maintenance in essence is giving a divorce but not being divorced what are you talking about all right well here we go we got usually we have a female and we have a male and together they get married they exchange the Rings they're together forever okay now when you get a divorce that's all like that gone its history it's done it's over worth your divorce only way to reestablish that is by getting remarried again okay and that's the only way you can reestablish those goals by getting remarried now in a separate maintenance what we have is we have a situation in which the divorce takes place but technically you still remain married the objects of matrimony are not destroyed now why in god's name would someone want to go through a divorce process and still remain married as husband and wife here's the reason usually it involves either very religious people or usually older people or someone a spouse that is very sick needs health insurance someone threw a separate maintenance a couple through a separate maintenance agreement can get divorced but because they're still married technically can remain and one or the others health insurance benefit plan okay so if the other is if you're still married you can still be on the same health insurance so it's because of that reason and someone may want us continue to be married and just separate and divide everything like a normal divorce but you have to be very careful nowadays and part of the attorneys job is to look at the different companies because some companies out there are saying that separate maintenance agreements if the spouses are not living together that they are not going to honor the insurance provisions so you've got to be careful the whole deal with the separate maintenance may be completely destroyed by an individual company's policy when it comes to their health care if someone's very religious also their religion may forbade people getting a divorce that's a situation a separate maintenance agreement would take place in the separate maintenance is everything is in the divorce you've got property settlement you're dealing with with custody you're dealing with parenting time the kids are involved spousal support all those issues are dealt with just like in a normal divorce except you're still married as husband and wife now even though a separate meeting that takes place mouse can go off at any time after that and file for divorce and still get a divorce that separate maintenance agreement will still be in effect and still be on...