Posted on 08/21/2014 8:09:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Did alimony kill Robin Williams?
At least in part it sure did. Paying out over $30 million to ex-wives who were allowed to attach themselves to Williams’ bank account like comatose patients on feeding tubes would be enough to make Gandhi angry and depressed.
While states are finally, gradually catching up to the modern age in terms of alimony (now they call it “maintenance” — as in “high maintenance”) the practice of men paying women because they once were married is not just primitive but, yes, sexist.
Yeah, go ahead, call me anti-feminist, call me whatever you want, but the truth is alimony (which is different from child support and fair distribution of assets acquired during the marriage) doesn’t mean the non-working spouse is entitled to live as high as the Kardashians. It’s that concept that is fundamentally anti-feminist.
No, I’m not talking out of my head. I’m talking as a formerly divorced, unemployed woman who didn’t ask for alimony, just a fair amount of child support for our then-2-year-old daughter, which never happened anyway.
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I’m guessing your ex daughter in law has... issues.
Mine never changed her last name or re-married. In a few years she’ll get to live off my social security. It won’t affect me or my wife, or I’d have tried to stop it.
Now you know why so many young men are marriage-shy.
They see other guys getting hit hard with unending, punitive alimony payments and years of child support payments and strict, limited visitation orders that wipe them out.
My cousin was hit twice by two ex-wives. He was a very very wealthy contractor, 100% self-made, lived in the best part of town and drove a Porsche.
He died broke, alone and unable to pay the rent on his cheap apartment (I didn’t know this until later).
He ended it by putting a gun in his mouth.
Yeah, they have more money (Hemingway)
They chose it, not earned it.
How does one become formerly divorced?
Either you are, or are not divorced.
Double-speak bull crap.
$30 million over how long a period of time? One year? Ten years?
“That’s me. So long as my ex and her live-in never marry, they both get to live off of me.”
jeeze you’re a nice guy, how can I get in on this scheme. /s
I thought I was reading my sister’s story when I read your post.
She was married to a gambling addict who ripped through the kids’ college funds among other accounts. She found out when an armed guard showed up at her door wanting to know about payments. She almost lost her job over all of it.
She divorced the bastard but had to pay him a huge amount of money just to get him to go away - 1/2 of a million dollar home that SHE had paid for. He tried to go after her retirement but she managed to block that through the use of a VERY high-priced lawyer who threatened to turn over ex-s thefts to the police for prosecution.
She said it set her back financially about 10 years after the dust finally settled.
A few months later, she got a call from LifeLock that her ex was still trying to open credit cards in her name.
I truly sympathize with you.
Every time I see a story like yours (and mine, I’m a guy, btw), the common thread is that there is usually a dirty, greedy, immoral skunk in the relationship.
And they’re the ones who get how to manipulate the system and use the integrity of their soon-to-be ex against them for their own fun and profit.
Too bad you live in Wisconsin and I live in MI. We would have both been better served if our locations were reversed!
But hey, we’re free now, right? :-)
Men are destroyed by the laws when it's divorce time. Even if she was the worlds worst wife or mom... she rapes him. Most guys are not up for that there.
If it pays good to divorce a man who is very wealthy then it stands to reason there are some who will seek to marry a man who is very wealthy...just to divorce him.
Why should anyone get a high percentage of someone else’s earned monies? I do not believe that is right.
Robin’s two ex-wives are blood guilty, in my eyes.
Make me a sammich.
It is a bad system. Many years ago, I worked for a young attorney who handled “domestic relations” cases. In those days it was considered good litigation and trial experience for law school grads just starting out.
Well, it was a nightmare. Clients were mostly women determined to obtain revenge on their ex-husbands by any means necessary. Alimony and child support were killers. Many of these women were financially comfortable in their own right, but they wanted the old man to pay dearly.
Even worse was child custody. These women would go to any length to keep the ex-husbands away from their children. One woman had her ex-husband arrested in front of his colleagues for a bogus charge of molesting their child. The kids are the ones who suffer.
The young attorney’s own marriage began to suffer when these stupid women started calling him at home late at night to whine about what *@$!#s their exes were. He finally went to his superiors and said, no more. Thank goodness. This was one area of the law I hated.
I am sure that he married for love all three times. In the case of either his first or second marriage he slept around and gave his wife herpes. So she divorced him.
In my opinion. At divorce a wife is entitled to a persentage up to half of anything that was accrued as a couple. Not a penny more.
RE: . At divorce a wife is entitled to a persentage up to half of anything that was accrued as a couple. Not a penny more.
What if they have minor children?
A talented, rich, cocaine addict and his money are eventually parted. The Robin Williams we all knew, was "acting" the parts we all knew.
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