Alimony - It is Unconstitutional

Via email from The Alliance For Freedom From Alimony, Inc.:

Alimony Statutes’ Background

There is no common law right to alimony. It is merely a statute that must conform to state and federal constitutional provisions.

Alimony originated because of coverture, i.e. a wife was viewed as property of the husband and herself was not entitled to own property., thus the idea that if the couple separated the husband was responsible for the cost of living of the wife.

Coverture was abolished by most states in their constitutions and statutes to guarantee wives the right to buy, own and sell property. It created opportunities of economic equality for wives.

The doctrine of necessaries, the idea that a husband was responsible to third parties for the debts of their wives, was abolished in many states based on equal protection grounds. The law in many states is that neither party in a marriage is responsible for the debts of the spouse to third parties. This effectively makes the parties in marriage economic independents. Some states have made both parties in a marriage responsible for the debts of the spouse to third parties thereby solving the equal protection issue by keeping the doctrine but making it gender neutral.