Posted on 07/03/2023 11:45:28 AM PDT by proust
The measure (SB 1416) includes doing away with what is known as permanent alimony. DeSantis' approval came a year after he nixed a similar bill that sought to eliminate permanent alimony and set up a formula for alimony amounts based on the length of marriage.
The approval drew an outcry from members of the "First Wives Advocacy Group," a coalition of mostly older women who receive permanent alimony and who assert that their lives will be upended without the payments.
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Bejeweled Dowagers beware! Time to downsize your lifestyle or maybe even find employment!
> permanent alimony
What a nightmare. Sounds like it was an incentive to divorce. Anything to break up families.
It sounds like there are some complicated issues, depending on age and health and finances of the person paying the alimony.
Is an ex-wife entitled to lifetime alimony and not ever told she should get a job? I don’t have the answer but just pointing out, this is a complication.
It does seem extreme, that the ex-husband has to work past retirement age, just to pay alimony to a similar aged ex-wife. What about social security, for example? She would be getting social security at that age.
There goes the women voters. /s
How about ending child support for kids that DNA proves aren’t yours?
I do see some legitimate opposition, but on balance the bill seems more fair than permanent alimony.
Marriage is grand.
Divorce is a hundred grand.........................
A year!
> I do see some legitimate opposition, but on balance the bill seems more fair than permanent alimony. <
Say a young wife puts her career goals aside to work, supporting her husband as he goes through medical school and then residency. Now they have a few kids. The wife’s career options have really decreased. But she doesn’t mind, based on the promises hubby made.
Then hubby meets a pretty nurse, and he demands a divorce. The couple has been married for, say, 8 years. I would think consideration must be given to that ex-wife beyond the number 8.
After all, the wife’s efforts were significant in helping the husband be a big money earner. And he’ll be earning for the next 30 years. Some sort of fair compromise must be reached here.
Side note: The above scenario is not a hypothetical. It describes a couple I knew.
Permanent alimony is insane, as is alimony over 10 years IMO. Especially when coupled with assets split 50/50. One, or the other perhaps, but not both.
That is the exception, not the rule.
Would cost me that much each year of alimony
I think it should depend on who broke the marriage contract.
Most states you pay about half the # of years you’ve been marrried. In your scenario, 4 years, which sounds about right, as she’ll also walk away with the house, half their assets and child support till kids turn 18 as well on top of that.
Eventually you have to pull that big old fat tick full of blood off and flush it down the toilet
Is that something the government should get involved in? It would be more helpful if he ended no fault dovorce.
NOTHING. She gets NOTHING!
I seems fair to shut down the alimony if the spouse getting a check remarries-either by license or common law/declaration to someone else-or like child support-stop it when the kids reach the age of 18, unless they are in college-otherwise if is just an ongoing rip-off of an ex-spouse...
Alimony show be for no more than 18 months unless they were unfaithful, then make it no more than 5 years,
It 2023 ladies, GET A JOB.
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