Sentence examples for alimony as it from inspiring English sources

Spousal support (or, "alimony" as it is commonly referred) provided a mechanism to protect the women.

This break is available for the original proceeding by which she procures taxable alimony, as well as for any subsequent proceeding to increase it or collect arrears.

Brandeis was granted $400,000 in lieu of alimony, as well as sole custody of Marie Madeline ("Gets Divorce" 15).

Amy now faces life as a jobless single mother, and seeks alimony as well as child support.

According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 56% of divorce lawyers have seen an increase in mothers paying child support, and 47% have seen more women paying alimony, as well.

So the court ordered Joe Theismann, who owns several restaurants and works as a commentator on ESPN, to pay $3,500 a month--her approximate monthly earnings before the marriage--in alimony as well as more than $100,000 of her legal fees.

The institute says the proper purpose of alimony is compensation for financial losses resulting from the breakdown of a marriage, and it refers to alimony as "compensatory spousal payments".

In Florida, as in most states, the alimony system works mostly as it should.

It's time the courts caught up and stopped looking at alimony as an entitlement.

Recipients must report alimony as income on Line 11.

Alimony, as you probably know, is fully taxable as income to the recipient and provides an “above the line” deduction for the payer, provided the conditions of §71 are met.