Women paying alimony-- quick, update those arcane, evil alimony laws

Article here. Ah, yes. As predictable as the sun in the east every morning. Indeed, time to update alimony laws-- they need to be updated out the window, really. But instead you can be pretty sure how they'll get "updated"; it'll look like this: men still pay it, women don't. Excerpt:

'"The laws definitely need to be changed. They aren't working anymore," said Michau, 67, who feels she was penalized in court for working and saving for decades while she says her ex-husband quickly exhausted his retirement savings.

To press for reform, Michau joined a new group, Florida Women for Alimony Reform, who are among those trying once again to present Gov. Rick Scott with a bill they say would modernize the state's archaic alimony statutes.
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"There are second wives, fiancés, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, and, of course, female alimony payers who are all negatively impacted by the current laws," said Israel, who teaches math at Broward College.

It's becoming more of an issue for some South Florida women. One study showed younger women outearning their male single counterparts and another touted South Florida women as among the national leaders in closing the wage gap.

In fact, women in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties earn closer to what men take home in their paychecks than do women in most U.S. metro areas, the National Partnership for Women & Families found earlier this year. Only Los Angeles and Las Vegas have a narrower wage divide than South Florida of the 50 metro areas studied, reported the Washington-based nonpartisan group that advocates for equal pay.

"We are seeing more women breadwinners and women out-earning men," said Lori Barkus, a family law attorney in Weston.

Some end up in divorce court and have to pay alimony, she said.'