Alimony bill dies amid acrimony

my_name_is_gato · 2015-04-30T19:21:02+00:00

"Judge, I have become accustomed to a certain level of sexual activity during the marriage. Since I must maintain my ex wife's financial lifestyle, she should be required to ensure my post divorce sexual activities do not unreasonably decline."

v8beetle · 2015-04-30T17:26:35+00:00

Sounds like we should be supporting Mr. Lee and digging into the political ties of those who opposed the shared provision measure to expose them.

bsutansalt · 2015-04-30T19:17:37+00:00

which would have established a formula for alimony amounts based on the length of marriages and the amounts of money spouses earn.

How about zero alimony and acknowledging it's the 21st century and if a former spouse needs income they can get their own god damn job!

AvgGuy101 · 2015-04-30T19:25:09+00:00

I was afraid that something like this would happen. IMHO, it is a mistake to lump two important issues like alimony reform and child custody together in the same bill. I believe it makes it harder to get bills like this passed.

yelirbear · 2015-04-30T16:32:39+00:00

Thats sad news.

8088XT8BIT · 2015-04-30T22:32:06+00:00

I'm a supporter of no alimony - period. I can't say I'm surprised with the decision.

I read someplace that there is alimony hidden in large and / or unfair amounts of child support payments. If I can find the link, I'll edit this post and add it.

http://www.fathermag.com/906/alimony/

GenderNeutralLanguag · 2015-05-01T00:38:58+00:00

I have to say I'm glad this bill got squashed. It wasn't one bill, but two. While I do like both the bills compressed into this one bill, it should be two seperate bills. We need to have alimony reform. We also need 50/50 shared custody. Tacking custody onto an alimony bill or alimony reform onto a custody bill makes it a very bad law to pass.

andejoh · 2015-04-30T20:16:12+00:00

I don't know that the alimony part is a loss. Women are closing the "wage gap". There are more SAHDs than there used to be. We know women are less willing to have a SAHD than men are a house wife.

Many times laws come back to bite you in the ass. In Illinois about 20 years ago I started hearing people suggest merit selection of judges rather than an elective system. What changed in 140 or so years? Demographics, areas of the state were no longer majority white.

The shared parenting thing is a tragedy because there is a bias toward women. Alimony, not so much.

dangerousopinions · 2015-05-01T05:05:56+00:00

which would have established a formula for alimony amounts based on the length of marriages and the amounts of money spouses earn.

How is it calculated right now?

Title	Alimony bill dies amid acrimony
Author	eaton80
Upvotes	34
Comments	17
Date	April 30, 2015 4:28 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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