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Florida lawmakers seek to pass alimony changes
Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-03-18 00:07
Article here. Excerpt:
'Lawmakers are seeking again to pass alimony changes that would put an end to permanent payments. Opponents said it would seriously harm women.
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Sponsor Colleen Burton said her bill is designed to reduce messy court fights.
"The overall (goal) is to reduce litigation that inflicts both economic and emotional tolls on spouses and their families who are going through a divorce and seeking alimony," Burton said.
The bill would eliminate permanent alimony. Instead of lifelong payments, an ex-spouse could be ordered to pay anywhere from 25 to 75 percent of the length of the marriage.
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"The alimony payer often is ordered to pay unaffordable amounts of alimony," said Frisher. "It puts the alimony payer sometimes in bankruptcy, in contempt and sometimes in jail. (For) the alimony receiver, on the other hand, the current law perpetuates an entitlement attitude."
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Women's groups that were against the proposal said that if wedding bells turn into a divorce, what happens to the women who had to stay at home rather than focus on their careers?
"Their husbands wanted them to stay home, have children, raise the children while he's out at work," said Barbara DeVane, of the National Organization for Women. "He's advancing in his career, she has no career."'
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My comment...
... as follows:
The "Mad Men" era is long past. I know of only one couple where mom stays home and that is because of disability. The couple has all of 2 kids, and the husband certainly didn't plan for this situation when he married her and neither did she.
Women today are by and large foregoing h@ving kids or delaying doing so significantly. If at all, they're h@ving one kid, maybe 2, with or without husbands. That is hardly a 1950s style domestic servitude/slavery crock that the opponents of alimony reform blather about.
Given women's huge successes educationally and in the workplace, there is no reason why alimony should exist anymore, period. Reducing it from lifetime alimony to limited alimony is progress but not justice. No alimony from anyone to anyone is justice. Waiting for that day.