F&F: Ending Permanent Alimony

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-02-07 15:31

Article here. Excerpt:

'An end to permanent alimony certainly appears more plausible when it makes headlines in the Personal Finance section of U.S. News: Money. Geoff Williams, who has authored several articles about the finances of divorce, addresses how this is a holdover from a time when women were taken care of by their husbands.

In “Taking the ‘Permanent’ Out of Permanent Alimony” he states, “Permanent alimony was created in the days when women didn't go to college and rarely had careers, instead tending to the kids and household. Then it was sorely needed. Now, opponents argue, those reasons for its being are long past.”'

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