My (M56) stbxw (F49) and I have been going down the divorce path for a few years now. We have been married for over 20 years and it just isn’t working anymore.

She worked for the entirety of our marriage except the last 3 years when she quit her well-paying job. The only reason she quit was because her parents said they’d pay her salary until she found a new job. No one expected it to last this long. So here we are going through the divorce proceedings and she is trying to take 50% of my salary which I can’t afford to pay if I’m going to live on my own.

My lawyer said that if she asks for spousal support, we will go to court and have her take a vocational test to show she is capable of earning and is just choosing not to work and live off of me.

I fully intend to play child support but it doesn’t seem fair that I should support her under these circumstances.

Has anyone experienced or heard of this legal strategy in divorce court? We live in CA.