Seriously? Are you sure it's not child support you are paying, not alimony? That kind of figure for alimony means either you had a really long marriage (seems unlikely if you're apart 24 years), she has a serious disability, she had a pre-nup, or you were very well off financially at the time of divorce and she had a hand in building that success.
Child support is a different matter. A child deserves adequate support from both parents, although the way it is delivered may differ.
For 24 years? How many kids, and how many left in the house?
Buddy of mine in New Jersey just got finished getting a divorce after 12 years of marriage: He has alimony payments of $18,000 a year for 10 years. She even has a professional job herself making great money. It amounts to 30% of the difference between their incomes.
Courts are brutal to divorcees.
My late brother-in-law paid alimony to his first wife for 40 years,until his death. (I don’t know the amount).
If she had remarried it would have ended....but she never did.
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You do realize he is from CA.? That about sums up his indentured servitude.
No child support. She got the house, I got all four kids and all the bills. She was and still is on SS disability.