If you get divorced, you have to give alimony to the other party.
If a marriage is relatively short and there are no children, the courts often refuse to award alimony.
In general, fathers contribute less than half the cost of child support after divorce, and court orders for alimony and child support are difficult to enforce.
It's alimony I got from my husband.
I'm hung over. I have two different alimony payments due and seven lines ringing.
In Los Angeles, this often happens right before the 10th anniversary, as California law states that after 10 years, a husband can be made to pay alimony indefinitely.
Yet when he launched the "alimony tour", claiming he'd been forced out of retirement to service the financial demands of his ex-wife, it all felt a bit unpleasant.
You may have to pay alimony if the divorce goes through.
Tables have turned in US divorce courts with more women paying their former husbands alimony and child support than ever before, according to US lawyers.
And then I realized that I would lose my alimony.
He needed something to renew his energies and, not incidentally, a means of making his alimony and child-support payments.
If a spouse has marketable skills but refuses to look for work, the court is likely to limit the amount of alimony and the length of alimony.
Third, once divorce looms, a wife may want to move to England or America (but should avoid no-alimony states such as Florida); for husbands, staying in continental Europe is wise.
But we think this is nothing but a smoke screen for his plan to divorce her for a younger woman and save paying her a lot of alimony.
Custody, division of property, alimony payments.
In Texas state law, alimony is usually minimal and temporary-though child support, thankfully, is a federal matter.
Where the winning party in a case claiming alimony or costs of support or upbringing dies,
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