Posted on 05/18/2023 7:02:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
Exactly. I know men who collect alimony from their ex-wives and women who pay alimony to their ex-husbands.
Whoever earns more pays alimony. If the women earns more, she pays alimony.
Whoever has primary physical custody of the children collects child support.
97% of alimony is from men to women.
Courts are biased when it comes to placing children with women so child support is de facto alimony 2. Most men would take 50/50 custody with 0 child support but women and family courts wouldn’t take money from the man if they did this.
This is one area where many european countries far excel the usa, divorce laws. Their system is not set up to be adversarial and seriously biased towards women. The american system mpis adversarial on purpose and makes over 60 billion dollars off divorce every year.
That’s not an accurate description of what’s happening in family courts, at least not in my state. The court awards primary custody to the parent (mother or father) who stays in the family home with the children, unless that parent wants to give up primary physical custody to the other parent. That’s how it works.
And women almost always get the house, which means they get primary of the kids, because the court will not take the kids out of the house. It pretty much does work this way.
In my state, whoever stays in the house gets the house, but must pay 50% of the equity to the ex-spouse who leaves the house. (It might work the same way in other states.)
globohomos
Biden Pushes Redefining Marriage to Include Homosexuals as a Binding Human Right
Make the world safe for perverts—that is their foreign policy goal—they should just come out and say it.
LOL, Mr potato head has no idea what he endorses, it is the unelected mob steering the thought and actions of a demented fool.
Except for those racist white supremacists huh Moe.
God can’t be happy with the promotion of butt darts
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