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MSN: Ex-husbands getting alimony-- quick, hide your money!
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2008-04-04 16:19
Today's 'Hot Topic' on MSN is how some men are getting alimony from their higher-earning ex-wives (*gasp*!), and how this can be avoided. No sooner it seems do certain women gain economic superiority than they search for ways to avoid the responsibilities that most men have been shouldering without attempt to shirk it for millenia. Story here. Since this is an oft-changed web page, the unusual step of citing the whole piece is shown below:
'Who's making alimony news? Men, and not just K-Fed. Former "Young and the Restless" star John Castellanos gets $9,000 a month. As The Wall Street Journal points out, alimony-receiving men just want R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
What else do Web searches tell us about splits? The top settlement searches, in order, are divorce, child support, custody and then alimony. Plus: alimony calculators
.Women outearn their husbands in almost one-third of American households, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures. Which brings us to some questions — and answers, of sorts.
Let's say you're a top-earning woman and you're about to get married. What should you have before you walk down the aisle? (Answer.)If you don't get the above signed and sealed before exchanging "I dos," what's your next step? (Answer.)
Don't quote us, but where can you, er, put your money for safekeeping, just in case? (Answer.)'
Related prior article here.
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What's good for the
Payback is a bitch ain't it ladies.
Badger
Except For The Grace of God Go I
John Castellanos gets $9,000 a month.
HEY! YOU GO GUY!
Wish it were me!
AliMoney
I am surprised that any men are being awarded alimony ("maintenance"), because most state laws require that it has to be linked to a temporary (usually no more than 5 years) need for financial support while the divorced person of lesser income has to get educated and have some time to become economically self-sufficient.
Even a lower earning man would be assumed to be capable of self-sufficiency.
Maybe it is the concept of "being supported to the standard of living he is accustomed to?"
There are divorced homeless men living in refrigerator boxes in the subway on State and Randolph in Chicago who never qualified for alimony.
They play some pretty good blues music...
When Life Is A Permenent Blues Gig
They play some pretty good blues music...
That is because they know what the "blues" is.
alimony
i know a woman who got the most visible major assets and $6k a month for life.
she's a sort of once removed family member so i better shut up about it.
this support paid to men is a token. nothing more. it's like when a few women
started paying small amounts of CS in the late 70's and suddenly according to
feminists women were paying CS just like men. and they resented even that.
yeah, we're back in BIZARRO world again i see. they still don't pay anywhere close
to what men pay, nor are they expected to do so. many women walk out
of court not wanting the children and not having to pay CS, or alimony.
most fathers i have questioned about this say they were just glad to get the kids.
but they could have obviously used the money. when women get privileges
in a court room it hurts the children and the family. and the officers of the courts ARE the ones most to blame MR. SACKS. they throw away their ethics for $$$. other professionals who do this are subject to criminal prosecution. so again they throw away their ethics. guess it kinda gets to be a habit.
and did anyone notice the art. below the one referenced?
female MBA's twice as likely to file for divorce as males?
women are magnanimous w/ men's money, but when they have to make
it we see the truth of character, or a lack of it, on a global proportion.
today's marriage, for all who have eyes to see, is just a means for women to get
a disposable servant to augment their future princess hopes and dreams.
nuttinu
alimony
This still all depends on what a particular court feels is right,there does not appear to be solid guidelines.Amazing isn't it that now women have to pay alimony that all of a sudden all these wonderful free sites pop up to advise them how to avoid or at least minimise payments.