For example, in marriages that are 10 years or more, the court may determine that the supported spouse has the ability to become self-supporting and cut alimony at the halfway duration of the marriage. The closer to the ten-year mark, the more likely the court will at some point cut off the support.ypically, the court will look at the last five years of a long-term marriage as indicative of the marital lifestyle. That stops at the date of separation when there was a final and irremediable breakdown in the marital relationship. See our informative article on the date of separation in a California divorce.
Level of System Focus. A Bowenian therapist would be interested in working with the family on a family level. They would see insight into levels of differentiation between generations as the main catalysis for change. A Structural family therapist would focus on the family system as well when working with Pearl and Duke.
The main difference between directive and non-directive approaches is in the role that the therapist takes on in the process. Psychoanalytic play therapy is a directive approach where play is used to establish contact with the client, as a medium of observation, and sometimes, as something that promotes interpretive communication.