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.........................
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.
I think it should depend on who broke the marriage contract.
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.
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.
Excellent! This limits alimony in common sense ways. No longer can someone get alimony forever and for any reason. Of course, this passed once it was found many women were the bread winners.
Had she never been married..and had a kid(s) ..i guess she would have gone on welfare for the rest of her life?
A fresh new crop of Entitled-Karen-Freakouts coming up on YouTube.
Shortages of box wine and cat collars too.
I really think this should be left up to the judge.
One extreme a woman marries at 18 like I did, avoids college and career building to focus on husband’s education, home keeping and career, and gets dumped or cheated on or serious abused at 45 you know what, lifetime alimony.
Other extreme a well educated career gal marries at 30 loses no income gets bored at 35 and leaves the man - no alimony.
It is not just to take a woman’s prime educational, childbearing, and career building years and then dump her. She should get life time alimony of a reasonable amount if she was gutted. There is no emotional, career, or financial rebuild at the point to be made.
Reagan approved of no-fault divorce in California and it spread across the nation.
It was another dagger in the family unit.
Oh, my. Don't forget guys - it's PERMANENT.
Let them go back to work!