Totally bizarre. I met a woman who was paying alimony to her husband, who preferred not to work, even though it was just about bankrupting her (she had custody of the child, and he paid nothing). He went out and bought himself a house with the alimony payments. She was just a normal employed person; she had a decent job, but not with an extremely high salary.
This is a crime. There should be some expectation from the Court that the ex-spouse develop a career and become self sufficient. The child is one thing, the ex-spouse is another.
How is this any different than any woman that sucks the life out of a man after marriage even though she is as capable of earning a living to support themselves?
I was married and divorced by the time I was 20. My ex-husband’s mother owned the house we were living in, so I moved back in with my parents, 3 hours away, ehich made me have to quit my job. My ex, who had a job, filed for alimony and he tried to argue that since I was unemployed, the alimony amount should be based on my parent’s combined income.
My fiancee is the same. She was paying him support even though she had custody. We got that reversed toute de suite when I made it clear to him, that I wasn’t going to pay him a dime of my money.