After paying alimony to two divorced wives, insurance policies, taxes, etc., he is down to less than $50 a week, with higher taxes coming he knows he can't go on.
After another divorce, alimony payments piled up while he squandered his fortune.
The previous system allowed judges to award lifelong alimony after both short and long marriages, in contrast to the practices of most states.
Shah Bano had no means to support herself and her five children, and she appealed to the civil courts to get alimony; after seven years she succeeded in winning a judgment from the Supreme Court.
And after he had paid alimony for seven years, he said, "she phoned me up and said: 'Seven years is long enough.
The high eastern German level of non-marital births is surprising in view of the fact that German law provides strong incentives for marital childbearing, like financial benefits (tax advantages, spouse insurance, and alimony rights after divorce) and legal advantages in the case of joint custody and in the recognition of paternity (Konietzka and Kreyenfeld 2002).
It often required payments to continue even after the spouse paying the alimony retired or the spouse receiving it moved in with a new partner.
After a public battle over alimony, the house (she did not want to leave Gracie Mansion) and even dog support, Ms. Hanover said she never expected to fall in love again.
Over her nearly four decades in the Legislature, Ms. Thompson, the longest-serving woman, black and Democrat in the House, has fought uphill battles to, as she says, "let the little dogs eat," repeatedly raising the minimum wage, passing Texas' first alimony law and, after a years-long battle, winning support for a hate-crimes bill to protect gay men and lesbians.
