Compensatory allowance is set according to the needs of the spouse to whom it is paid and the resources of the other, taking into account the situation at the time of the divorce and how it will change in the foreseeable future.
To this end, the judge shall take into account in particular:
– the duration of the marriage;
– the age and state of health of the spouses;
– their professional qualifications and situation;
– the consequences of the professional choices made by one of the spouses during their life together for the upbringing of the children and the time that will still have to be devoted to this or to favour the career of his or her spouse to the detriment of his or her own…;
– the estimated or foreseeable assets of the spouses, both capital and income, after the liquidation of the matrimonial property regime;
– their existing and foreseeable rights ;
– their respective situation with regard to retirement pensions, having estimated, as far as possible, the reduction in retirement rights that may have been caused, for the spouse who is the creditor of the compensatory allowance, by the circumstances referred to in the sixth paragraph.